Stephen R. Millar - Football and Popular Culture: Singing Out from the Stands

Football is ubiquitous and a permanent fixture of modern life. More than a sport, it frequently manifests in broader popular culture. This book examines the significance of football for, and in, popular culture across a wide range of forms, including music, film, and social media.

Football and Popular Culture plots a new path in Football Studies, drawing on original research in countries including England, Brazil, Germany, Canada, and Yugoslavia. The book includes both historical and contemporary perspectives, exploring some of the most important themes in the study of sport and culture, including identity, nationalism, fandom, and protest. It presents diverse case studies ranging from sonic violence among Brazilian torcidas organizadas to fan-led commemoration of the Munich air disaster, which together help us to better understand the intersection of sport, society, and popular culture.

This is fascinating reading for any student or researcher working in sport studies, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, or contemporary history.

Stephen R. Millar is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Ethnomusicology at Cardiff University, UK.

Martin J. Power is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland.

Paul Widdop is Senior Lecturer in Sport Business Management, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Daniel Parnell is Senior Lecturer in Sport Business at the University of Liverpool, UK.

James Carr is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Names: Millar, Stephen R., editor. | Power, Martin J., editor. | Widdop, Paul, editor. | Parnell, Daniel, editor. | Carr, James, editor.
Title: Football and popular culture : singing out from the stands / edited by Stephen R. Millar, Martin J. Power, Paul Widdop, Daniel Parnell, and James Carr.
Subjects: LCSH: Soccer--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
Classification: LCC GV943.9.S64 F647 2021 | DDC 796.334--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020054013

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ISBN: 978-0-367-43350-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-00648-2 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-00260-4 (ebk)

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Series Editors:
Pete Millward, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Jamie Cleland, University of Southern Australia
Dan Parnell, University of Liverpool, UK
Stacey Pope, Durham University, UK
Paul Widdop, Leeds Beckett University, UK

The Critical Research in Football book series was launched in 2017 to showcase the inter- and multi-disciplinary breadth of debate relating to football. The series defines football as broader than association football, with research on rugby, Gaelic, and gridiron codes also featured. Including monographs, edited collections, short books, and textbooks, books in the series are written and/or edited by leading experts in the field whilst consciously also affording space to emerging voices in the area, and are designed to appeal to students and scholars who are interested in the range of disciplines in which critical research in football connects. The series is published in association with the Football Collective, www.footballcollective.org.uk.

Available in this series:

Politics, Ideology and Football Fandom
The Transformation of Modern Poland
Radosaw Kossakowski, Przemysaw Nosal and Wojciech Woniak

The Development of Womens Soccer
Legacies, Participation and Popularity in Germany
Henk Erik Meier

Russia and the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Edited by Richard Arnold

Football and Popular Culture
Singing Out from the Stands
Edited by Stephen R. Millar, Martin J. Power, Paul Widdop, Daniel Parnell and James Carr

Football and Discrimination
Antisemitism and Beyond
Edited by Pavel Brunssen and Stefanie Schler-Springorum

Football, Politics and Identity
James Carr, Daniel Parnell, Paul Widdop, Martin J. Power and Stephen R. Millar

https://www.routledge.com/sport/series/CFSFC

In February 2016, a group of scholars working across a range of disciplines founded the Football Collective. Responding to real and tangible issues in academia, such as social isolation, limited departmental support, and increasing demands in relation to teaching and learning and research, the Collective established a network to support those working on football-related research. The Football Collective held its inaugural conference at FC United of Manchesters Broadhurst Park in November 2016. Here, ideas were shared, friendships formed, and collaborations kicked off, which included securing the host for the 2017 conference in Ireland.

The Football Collectives second annual conference was hosted by the Popular Music and Popular Culture Research Cluster, at the University of Limerick, and focused on the overarching theme of Football, Politics, and Popular Culture. The conference organisers James Carr, Martin Power, and Stephen Millar hosted a global cohort of guests in November 2017. The meeting was memorable both for the quality and scope of research presented and, crucially, for the development of important social and academic connections. Conversations between strangers grew into collaborations with colleagues and, ultimately, led to the formulation of this book and its stablemate, Football, Politics, and Identity.

In 2017, the Football Collective launched the Critical Research in Football book series to showcase the inter- and multidisciplinary breadth of debate relating to football. Thus far, the series has attracted considerable interest from global football scholars. The range of topics is vast, including fandom, consumption, fiction, history, migration, medicine, legacy, politics, activism, and events. Indeed, the series is steadily becoming a go-to place for football scholars to publish their research. Books in the series are written and/or edited by leading experts in the field, while consciously also affording space to emerging voices in the area. They are designed to appeal to students and scholars interested in the range of disciplines in which critical research in football connects.