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This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in
Leeds -Â developed from the work of interdisciplinary
scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition
“Sounds of Our City” and built upon contemporary
research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage, a
long tradition of vibrant music venues, nightclubs, dance
halls, pubs and other sites of musical entertainment. The
city has spawned crooners, folk singers, punks,
post-Â punks, Goths, DJs, popstars, rappers and
indie rockers, yet – with a few exceptions - Leeds
has not been studied for its scenes in ways that other UK
cities have. In ways that the chapters explore, Leeds’
popular music exemplifies and informs understandings of
broader cultural and urban changes – both in Britain and
across wider global contexts – of the social and historical
significance of music as mass media; music and
migration;Â music, racialisation and social equity;
industrial decline, de-industrialisation, neoliberalism and
the rise of the 24-hour city. Charting moments of
stark musical politicisation and de-politicisation,
while concomitantly tracing arguments
about “heritagising” popular music within
discussions about music’s “place” in museums and in
the urban economy, this book contributes to
debates about why music matters, has mattered,
and continues to matter in Leeds, and beyond. Â
This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in
Leeds -Â developed from the work of interdisciplinary
scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition
“Sounds of Our City” and built upon contemporary
research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage, a
long tradition of vibrant music venues, nightclubs, dance
halls, pubs and other sites of musical entertainment. The
city has spawned crooners, folk singers, punks,
post-Â punks, Goths, DJs, popstars, rappers and
indie rockers, yet – with a few exceptions - Leeds
has not been studied for its scenes in ways that other UK
cities have. In ways that the chapters explore, Leeds’
popular music exemplifies and informs understandings of
broader cultural and urban changes – both in Britain and
across wider global contexts – of the social and historical
significance of music as mass media; music and
migration;Â music, racialisation and social equity;
industrial decline, de-industrialisation, neoliberalism and
the rise of the 24-hour city. Charting moments of
stark musical politicisation and de-politicisation,
while concomitantly tracing arguments
about “heritagising” popular music within
discussions about music’s “place” in museums and in
the urban economy, this book contributes to
debates about why music matters, has mattered,
and continues to matter in Leeds, and beyond. Â
Within events management, events are commonly categorised within
two axes, size and content. Along the size axis events range
between the small scale and local, through major events, which
garner greater media interest, to internationally significant
hallmark and mega events such as the Edinburgh Festival and the
Tour de France. Content is frequently divided into three forms -
culture, sport or business. However, such frameworks overlook and
depoliticise a significant variety of events, those more accurately
construed as protest. This book brings together new research and
theories from around the world and across sociology, leisure
studies, politics and cultural studies to develop a new critical
pedagogy and critical theory of events. It is the first research
monograph that deals explicitly with the concept of critical event
studies (CES), the idea that it is impossible to explore and
understand events without understanding the wider social, cultural
and political contexts. It addresses questions such as can the
occupation and reclamation of specific spaces by activists be
understood as events within its framework? And is the activity of
activists in these spaces a leisure activity? If those, and other
similar activities, can be read as events and leisure, what does
admitting them into the scope of events management and leisure
studies mean for our understanding of them and how the study of
events management is to be conceptualised? This title will be of
interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on events
management and related courses and scholars interested in
understanding the ways in which events are constructed by the
social, the cultural and the political.
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research
activities that have contributed to the formation of the
international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing
on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular
music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and
ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal
musicology, global/local scenes studies, fandom, gender and metal
identity, metal media, and commerce. Offering a wide-ranging focus
on bands, scenes, periods, and sounds, contributors explore topics
such as the riff-based song writing of classic heavy metal bands
and their modern equivalents, and the musical-aesthetics of
Grindcore, Doom metal, Death metal, and Progressive metal. They
interrogate production technologies, sound engineering, album
artwork and band promotion, logos and merchandising, t-shirt and
jewellery design, and fan communities that define the global metal
music economy and subcultural scene. The volume explores how the
new academic discipline of metal studies was formed, also looking
forward to the future of metal music and its relationship to metal
scholarship and fandom. With an international range of
contributors, this volume will appeal to scholars of popular music,
cultural studies, and sociology, as well as those interested in
metal communities around the world.
Within events management, events are commonly categorised within
two axes, size and content. Along the size axis events range
between the small scale and local, through major events, which
garner greater media interest, to internationally significant
hallmark and mega events such as the Edinburgh Festival and the
Tour de France. Content is frequently divided into three forms -
culture, sport or business. However, such frameworks overlook and
depoliticise a significant variety of events, those more accurately
construed as protest. This book brings together new research and
theories from around the world and across sociology, leisure
studies, politics and cultural studies to develop a new critical
pedagogy and critical theory of events. It is the first research
monograph that deals explicitly with the concept of critical event
studies (CES), the idea that it is impossible to explore and
understand events without understanding the wider social, cultural
and political contexts. It addresses questions such as can the
occupation and reclamation of specific spaces by activists be
understood as events within its framework? And is the activity of
activists in these spaces a leisure activity? If those, and other
similar activities, can be read as events and leisure, what does
admitting them into the scope of events management and leisure
studies mean for our understanding of them and how the study of
events management is to be conceptualised? This title will be of
interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on events
management and related courses and scholars interested in
understanding the ways in which events are constructed by the
social, the cultural and the political.
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research
activities that have contributed to the formation of the
international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing
on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular
music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and
ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal
musicology, global/local scenes studies, fandom, gender and metal
identity, metal media, and commerce. Offering a wide-ranging focus
on bands, scenes, periods, and sounds, contributors explore topics
such as the riff-based song writing of classic heavy metal bands
and their modern equivalents, and the musical-aesthetics of
Grindcore, Doom metal, Death metal, and Progressive metal. They
interrogate production technologies, sound engineering, album
artwork and band promotion, logos and merchandising, t-shirt and
jewellery design, and fan communities that define the global metal
music economy and subcultural scene. The volume explores how the
new academic discipline of metal studies was formed, also looking
forward to the future of metal music and its relationship to metal
scholarship and fandom. With an international range of
contributors, this volume will appeal to scholars of popular music,
cultural studies, and sociology, as well as those interested in
metal communities around the world.
Can activism be considered a leisure activity? Can the Occupy
movement, local campaigns for change and lone acts of personal
resistance be understood as events? Within the field of Events
Management the content of events is generally analyzed within three
categories-culture, sport or business. Such a typology can be
helpful as a heuristic for interpretation and analysis within a
commercial paradigm. However, this framework overlooks and
depoliticizes a significant variety of events, those more
accurately construed as protest. Protests as Events is the first
book to explore activism as a leisure activity and protests as
events; using a fresh interpretation of event to develop a new
critical politics of events and leisure. Bringing together a range
of cutting edge research from around the world, it explores a
variety of protests through the lens of events studies and leisure
in order to understand how the study of events management might be
conceptualized in the protest space.
Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common
aspect of popular culture, and the North of England, like other
Northernnesses in Europe, is a collection of narratives, myths,
stereotypes and symbols. In politics and everyday culture, Northern
culture is paradoxically a site of resistance against an
inauthentic South, a source of working-class identity, and a source
of elite marginalisation. This book provides a key to theorising
about Northernness, and a platform to scholars working away at
exposing the North in different aspects of culture. The aims of
this book are twofold: to re-theorise 'the North' and Northern
culture and to highlight the ways in which constructions of
Northernness and Northern culture are constituted alongside other
gender, racial and regional identities. The contributions presented
here theorise Northernness in relation to space, leisure, gender,
race, class, social realism, and everyday embodied practices. A
main thematic thread that weaves the whole book together is the
notion that Northernness and 'the North' is both an imagined
discursive construct and an embodied subjectivity, thus creating a
paradox between the reality of 'North' and its representation. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for
Cultural Research.
Alternativity delineates those spaces, scenes, club-cultures,
objects and practices in modern society that are considered to be
actively designed to be counter or resistive to mainstream popular
culture. The idea of the alternative in popular culture became
mainstream with the rise of the counter culture in 1960s America
(though there were earlier forms of alternative cultures in America
and other Western countries). Alternativity is associated with
marginalization, both actively pursued by individuals, and imposed
on individuals and sub-cultures, and was originally represented and
constructed through acts of transgression, and through shared
sub-cultural capital. This edited collection maps the landscape of
alternativity and marginalization, providing new theory and methods
in a currently under-theorized area, setting out the issues,
questions, concerns and directions of this area of study. It
demonstrates the theoretical richness and empirical diversity of
the interdisciplinary field it encompasses, and is deliberately
feminist in its approach and its composition, with a majority of
the contributors being women. Divided into three sub-sections,
focused on sub-cultures, bodies and spaces, contributors explore
this exciting new terrain, both through critiques of theory and new
theoretical developments, and case studies of alternativity and
marginalization in practice and in performance, expanding our
understanding of the alternative, the liminal and the
transgressive.
The origins and deeds of the old Goths were constructed by Roman
historians in fear of the Goth as a barbarian outsider; at the same
time, the Goths were themselves the heroic subject of their own
histories, constructed by their supporters as stories of their
mythical origin and the deeds that led them to be rulers of their
own kingdoms in post-Roman Late Antiquity. Who the old Goths were,
their origins and their deeds, was a product of history,
historiography and myth-making. In this book, Spracklen and
Spracklen use the idea of collective memory to explore the
controversies and boundary-making surrounding the genesis and
progression of the modern gothic alternative culture. Spracklen and
Spracklen argue that goth as sub-culture in the eighties was
initially counter cultural, political and driven by a musical
identity that emerged from punk. However, as goth music globalised
and became another form of pop and rock music, goth in the nineties
retreated into an alternative sub-culture based primarily on style
and a sense of transgression and profanity. By this century goth
became the focus of teenage rebellions, moral panics and growing
commodification of counter-cultural resistance, so that by the goth
has effectively become another fashion choice in the late-modern
hyper-real shopping malls, devoid generally of resistance and
politics. Goth, like punk, is in danger of being co-opted
altogether by capitalism. This book suggests that the only way for
goth culture to survive is if it becomes transgressive and radical
again.
This edited collection explores Positive Sociology of Leisure (PSL)
as a subfield relating to leisure studies, sociology of leisure,
and sociology of happiness. Defined as an area of research that
examines social aspects of leisure life with a focus on the optimal
functioning of relationship, group, community, organization, and
other social units, PSL differs from more critical forms of
sociology in that its starting point is social positives. The
contributions draw on a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds
to consider various meanings of leisure across themes such as:
ageing; sex, sexuality and family; community, youth, and education;
and arts and creativity. Positive Sociology of Leisure will be a
key reference within the field of sociology of leisure, as well as
an important introductory book for those interested in leisure
studies.
This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global
leisure studies and global leisure theory. It explores the impact
of globalization on leisure, and the sites of resistance and
accommodation found in local, virtual and global leisure spaces.
Unlike any other collection on leisure studies, Global Leisure and
the Struggle for a Better World is truly representative of the
diversity of the large and growing leisure scholarship across the
globe. It demonstrates how researchers in leisure studies and
sociology of leisure are applying complex theory to their work, and
how a new theory of global leisure is emerging.
This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global
leisure studies and global leisure theory. It explores the impact
of globalization on leisure, and the sites of resistance and
accommodation found in local, virtual and global leisure spaces.
Unlike any other collection on leisure studies, Global Leisure and
the Struggle for a Better World is truly representative of the
diversity of the large and growing leisure scholarship across the
globe. It demonstrates how researchers in leisure studies and
sociology of leisure are applying complex theory to their work, and
how a new theory of global leisure is emerging.
Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and
leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces
and activities have become part of everyday leisure. Covering a
range of issues from social media and file-sharing to romance on
the Internet, this book presents new theoretical directions for
digital leisure.
Can activism be considered a leisure activity? Can the Occupy
movement, local campaigns for change and lone acts of personal
resistance be understood as events? Within the field of Events
Management the content of events is generally analyzed within three
categories-culture, sport or business. Such a typology can be
helpful as a heuristic for interpretation and analysis within a
commercial paradigm. However, this framework overlooks and
depoliticizes a significant variety of events, those more
accurately construed as protest. Protests as Events is the first
book to explore activism as a leisure activity and protests as
events; using a fresh interpretation of event to develop a new
critical politics of events and leisure. Bringing together a range
of cutting edge research from around the world, it explores a
variety of protests through the lens of events studies and leisure
in order to understand how the study of events management might be
conceptualized in the protest space.
Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common
aspect of popular culture, and the North of England, like other
Northernnesses in Europe, is a collection of narratives, myths,
stereotypes and symbols. In politics and everyday culture, Northern
culture is paradoxically a site of resistance against an
inauthentic South, a source of working-class identity, and a source
of elite marginalisation. This book provides a key to theorising
about Northernness, and a platform to scholars working away at
exposing the North in different aspects of culture. The aims of
this book are twofold: to re-theorise 'the North' and Northern
culture and to highlight the ways in which constructions of
Northernness and Northern culture are constituted alongside other
gender, racial and regional identities. The contributions presented
here theorise Northernness in relation to space, leisure, gender,
race, class, social realism, and everyday embodied practices. A
main thematic thread that weaves the whole book together is the
notion that Northernness and 'the North' is both an imagined
discursive construct and an embodied subjectivity, thus creating a
paradox between the reality of 'North' and its representation. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for
Cultural Research.
Metal is a form of popular music. Popular music is a form of
leisure. In the modern age, popular music has become part of
popular culture, a heavily contested collection of practices and
industries that construct place, belonging and power. The arrival
of Donald Trump in the White House has shown that angry white men
still wield huge social and cultural power in this new century. The
aim of this monograph is to explore metal music - might be seen as
leisure spaces that resist the norms and values of the mainstream;
but also how they might also serve to re-affirm and construct those
norms and values. In particular, this book is interested in how
forms of metal might work to re-imagine masculinity, race, nation
and class in an intersectional way through the myth of warrior
masculinity and blood and soil. This monograph explores the history
of the myths, and the reaction by fans to the music. The focus is
extended to bands that use the warrior-nation myth in places and
countries beyond the global North, and in ways that challenge or
subvert hegemony.
This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the
relations between music and cities, and the global flows between
music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection
comment on the global city as a nexus of moving people, changing
places, and shifting social relations, asking what popular music
can tell us about cities, and vice versa. Since the publication of
the first Sounds and the City volume, various movements, changes
and shifts have amplified debates about globalization. From the
waves of people migrating to Europe from the Syrian civil war and
other conflict zones, to the 2016 "Brexit" vote to leave the
European Union and American presidential election of Donald Trump.
These, and other events, appear to have exposed an anti-globalist
retreat toward isolationism and a backlash against multiculturalism
that has been termed "post-globalization." Amidst this, what of
popular music? Does music offer renewed spaces and avenues for
public protest, for collective action and resistance? What can the
diverse histories, hybridities, and legacies of popular music tell
us about the ever-changing relations of people and cities?
This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the
relations between music and cities, and the global flows between
music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection
comment on the global city as a nexus of moving people, changing
places, and shifting social relations, asking what popular music
can tell us about cities, and vice versa. Since the publication of
the first Sounds and the City volume, various movements, changes
and shifts have amplified debates about globalization. From the
waves of people migrating to Europe from the Syrian civil war and
other conflict zones, to the 2016 "Brexit" vote to leave the
European Union and American presidential election of Donald Trump.
These, and other events, appear to have exposed an anti-globalist
retreat toward isolationism and a backlash against multiculturalism
that has been termed "post-globalization." Amidst this, what of
popular music? Does music offer renewed spaces and avenues for
public protest, for collective action and resistance? What can the
diverse histories, hybridities, and legacies of popular music tell
us about the ever-changing relations of people and cities?
This edited collection explores Positive Sociology of Leisure (PSL)
as a subfield relating to leisure studies, sociology of leisure,
and sociology of happiness. Defined as an area of research that
examines social aspects of leisure life with a focus on the optimal
functioning of relationship, group, community, organization, and
other social units, PSL differs from more critical forms of
sociology in that its starting point is social positives. The
contributions draw on a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds
to consider various meanings of leisure across themes such as:
ageing; sex, sexuality and family; community, youth, and education;
and arts and creativity. Positive Sociology of Leisure will be a
key reference within the field of sociology of leisure, as well as
an important introductory book for those interested in leisure
studies.
This is the first handbook devoted entirely to leisure theory,
charting the history and philosophy of leisure, theories in
religion and culture, and rational theories of leisure in the
Western philosophical tradition, as well as a range of
socio-cultural theories from thinkers such as Adorno, Bauman, Weber
and Marx. Drawing on contributions from experts in leisure studies
from around the world, the four sections cover: traditional
theories of leisure; rational theories of leisure; structural
theories of leisure; and post-structural theories of leisure. The
Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory is essential reading for
students and scholars working in leisure studies, social theory as
well as those working on the problem of leisure in the wider
humanities and social sciences.
The way we organise our free time can reveal a great deal about our
identities and ideology. This book explores what our sports and
leisure choices can tell us about the society in which we live.
Comprehensive, cutting edge and packed with global examples it
covers all the essentials for students of sports and leisure
sociology.
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