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By Steve Redhead

ISBN-10: 1138705071

ISBN-13: 9781138705074

ISBN-10: 113892315X

ISBN-13: 9781138923157

In Football and speeded up Culture, Steve Redhead bargains a brand new and demanding theorisation of world soccer tradition, exploring the connection among recreation and tradition in a quickly moving international. Incorporating state of the art thoughts, from sped up tradition and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he displays at the death of operating classification soccer cultures and the swift media globalisation of ‘the people’s game’.


Drawing on overseas empirical study and a different and ground-breaking examine of soccer hooligan memoirs, the booklet delves right into a large choice of disciplines, studying interesting themes equivalent to the connection among song and soccer; hooligans and ultras; the increase of social media and anti-modern soccer pursuits; and ultra-realist criminology.


Football and speeded up Culture deals a brand new frame of mind approximately carrying cultures that expands the bounds of actual cultural reviews. As such, it is crucial interpreting for anyone with an curiosity within the tradition of game and rest, social concept, verbal exchange reports, criminology or socio-legal studies.

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