"This is a very good book . . . well, clearly, and forcefully written, in an attractive style with a touch of personal directness though with no sacrifice of academic rigour. The author's enjoyment of popular culture in various forms is clear and infectious." . Ritchie Robertson, Oxford University Changing Cultural Tastes offers a critical survey of the taste wars fought over the past two centuries between the intellectual establishment and the common people in Germany. It charts the uneasy relationship of high and popular culture in Germany in the modern era. The impact of National Socialism and the strong influence from Great Britain and the United States are assessed in this cultural history of a changing nation and society. The period 1920-1980 is given special prominence, and the work of significant writers and artists such as Josef von Sternberg and Bertolt Brecht, Elfriede Jelinek and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Erwin Piscator and Heinrich Bll, is closely analysed. Their work has reflected changing tastes and, crucially, helped to make taste more pluralistic and democratic. Anthony Waine teaches German and European Studies at Lancaster University, specialising in courses on the cultural history of the twentieth century. His previous publications include Martin Walser: The Development as Dramatist 1950-1970; Martin Walser (Autorenbuch); Brecht in Perspective and Culture and Society in the GDR (both co-edited with Graham Bartram). He has also taught at Hamburg University and Wadham College, Oxford, and was awarded the Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2000.

Der vorliegende Band analysiert das sich wandelnde Fussballspiel in Deutschland und England vor dem Hintergrund der Frage: Lasst sich im Kontext des globalisierten, postmodernen Fussballspiels noch von nationalen Fussballkulturen sprechen, die sich deutlich voneinander unterscheiden? Die deutschen und englischen Beitrage betrachten dazu eine Reihe unter-schiedlicher Phanomene, wie etwa die soziale Herkunft der Fans, kommerzielle Einflusse, Frauenfussball und vor allem die Rolle der Massenmedien.

British and German authors analyse the changing face of football in England and Germany. The book addresses in particular the question of whether one can still speak, in the context of a globalised, postmodern game, of national football cultures that are clearly distinguishable from one another. Contributions in English and German examine a number of different phenomena such as the social background of fans, commercial influences, women s football and above all the role of the mass media."