Songs From The Barmy Army
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Songs From The Barmy Army
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Author : Paul Winslow
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-11-08
Songs From The Barmy Army written by Paul Winslow and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Everywhere England go to play Test cricket, the Barmy Army follows, giving them unstinting support and always searching for the best songs, chants and banter to help their team overcome the opposition. This hilarious book collects the best and funniest moments from almost 20 years of enthusiastic backing. It reveals how the chants were created and how the players responded to hearing their names taken in vain. From the classic 'Ball and Chain' to the more recent 'Swann Will Tear You Apart', this book is an ideal way to get into the true Barmy spirit.
Everywhere We Went
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Author : Ben Dirs
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-11-10
Everywhere We Went written by Ben Dirs and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Boxing Day, Melbourne 2010: a packed house of over 80,000 sits down to watch the crucial fourth Test unfold. Three days later, only 12,000 remain - and it's just the Barmy Army, celebrating as England retain the Ashes. They run through their full repertoire of songs, cheering on England's success. Meanwhile, the England players salute those who have made the effort to be there, spending thousands of pounds to support their side, inspiring them to another great victory. What was it like to be there? How did it come to pass that thousands gathered together? Who is the trumpeter? Who came up with the songs? What else do the Barmy Army get up to when the cricket finishes? This book answers all those questions, and many more, providing a brilliant and hilarious insight to life on tour with the Barmy Army. For those who were there, it will bring back a flood of memories. For those who weren't, this book will show you what you missed, and why you need to join in next time to have the time of your life.
Sport Music Identities
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Author : Anthony Bateman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-01-08
Sport Music Identities written by Anthony Bateman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-08 with Music categories.
Despite the close and longstanding links between sport and music, the relationships between these two significant cultural forms have been relatively neglected. This book addresses the oversight with a series of highly original essays written by authors from a range of academic disciplines including history, psychology, musicology and cultural studies. It deals with themes including sport in music; music in sport; the use of music in mass sporting events; and sport, music and protest. In so doing, the book raises a range of important themes such as personal and collective identity, cultural value, ideology, globalisation and the commercialisation of sport. As well as considering the sport/music nexus in Great Britain, the collection examines sport and music in Ireland, the United States, Germany and the former Soviet Union, as well as in the Olympic movement. Musical styles and genres discussed are diverse and include classical, rock, music hall and football-terrace chants. For anybody with an interest in sport, music or both, this collection will prove an enjoyable and stimulating read. This book was previously published as a Special Issue of Sport in Society.
My Army O My Army And Other Songs
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Author : Henry Lawson
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
My Army O My Army And Other Songs written by Henry Lawson and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Fiction categories.
Henry Lawson's poems narrate the rawness of life in the Australian bush between the late 19th and early 20th century, among humble herdsmen, sheep shearers and itinerant labourers, the compassion for the fates of others, the active solidarity, the austerity of the situations in which women and children live at the mercy of an impervious landscape. Lawson portrays them with great empathy and is able to capture the strenuous struggle to survive in a hostile world and the courage to face the unknown. "My Army, O, My Army" is one collection of his poems.
Globalizing Cricket
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Author : Dominic Malcolm
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Globalizing Cricket written by Dominic Malcolm and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport - how it developed and spread around the world. The book explores the origins of cricket in the eighteenth century, its establishment as England's national game in the nineteenth, the successful (Caribbean) and unsuccessful (American) diffusion of cricket as part of the development of the British Empire and its role in structuring contemporary identities amongst and between the English, the British and postcolonial communities. Whilst empirically focused on the sport itself, the book addresses broader issues such as social development, imperialism, race, diaspora and national identities. Tracing the beginnings of cricket as a 'folk game' through to the present, it draws together these different strands to examine the meaning and social significance of the modern game. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the role of sport in both colonial and post-colonial periods; the history and peculiarities of English national identity; or simply intrigued by the game and its history.
Introduction To Sport Marketing
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Author : Aaron C.T. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-17
Introduction To Sport Marketing written by Aaron C.T. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-17 with Business & Economics categories.
Introduction to Sport Marketing is an accessible and engaging introduction to key concepts and best practice in sport marketing. Aimed at students with little or no prior knowledge of marketing, the book outlines a step-by-step framework for effective sport marketing, from conducting market analysis and developing a strategy, through to detailed planning and implementation. The book has a wider scope than other sport marketing textbooks, recognising that students are just as likely to have to employ their marketing skills in community sport or the not-for-profit sector as in professional sport, and therefore represents the most realistic and useful sport marketing text currently available. Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, the book has expanded coverage of digital and social media, product innovation, services and relationship marketing, and key contemporary issues such as social responsibility and sustainability. It features a much wider range of international cases and examples, covering North America, Europe, and the vibrant and rapidly developing sport markets in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America. Every chapter includes a range of useful features to help the reader to engage with fundamental principles and applied practice, such as problem-solving exercises and review questions. Introduction to Sport Marketing is an essential textbook for any degree-level sport marketing course.
Everything To Play For
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Author : James Harkin
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2023-10-10
Everything To Play For written by James Harkin and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-10 with Humor categories.
' Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski. From sport's weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, via comically large cricket bats, pole-vaulting priests, creative football chants and exploding billiard balls, each chapter of Everything to Play For is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories. Even if you've never asked yourself what David Attenborough has to do with yellow tennis balls, why Victorian doctors feared the outbreak of 'bicycle face' or what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed, this book will give you the astonishing answers - and plenty more besides. ** For more from the team behind QI's hit TV show, check out the QI FACTS series of books, @qikipedia, their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.com or visit qi.com.
Crickonomics
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Author : Stefan Szymanski
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-05-26
Crickonomics written by Stefan Szymanski and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-26 with Sports & Recreation categories.
“Fascinating” The Observer “Illuminating” The Times “Crickonomics is packed with sufficient statistical analysis to have the most ardent cricket geek purring with pleasure” Mail on Sunday “An insightful, Hawk-Eye-like analysis of the numbers behind cricket” Financial Times An engaging tour of the modern game from an award-winning journalist and the economist who co-authored the bestselling Soccernomics. Why does England rely on private schools for their batters – but not their bowlers? How did demographics shape India's rise? Why have women often been the game's great innovators? Why does South Africa struggle to produce Black Test batters? And how does the weather impact who wins? Crickonomics explores all of this and much more – including how Jayasuriya and Gilchrist transformed Test batting but T20 didn't; English cricket's great missed opportunity to have a league structure like football; why batters are paid more than bowlers; how Afghanistan is transforming German cricket; what the rest of the world can learn from New Zealand and even the Barmy Army's importance to Test cricket. This incisive book will entertain and surprise all cricket lovers. It might even change how you watch the game.
The End Of The Century Party
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Author : Steve Redhead
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1990
The End Of The Century Party written by Steve Redhead and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Popular culture categories.
"This book offers an alternative perspective on popular music and youth culture in the 1980s and beyond. Based on interviews with disc jockeys, record label owners, musicians, producers and fans, it describes and analyses the shift from New Pop in the early 1980s to what it calls Political Pop in the mid-late 1980s."--From synopsis.
Post Fandom And The Millennial Blues
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Author : Steve Redhead
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11-01
Post Fandom And The Millennial Blues written by Steve Redhead and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Soccer fandom has traditionally been seen as an important part of adolescent, generally male, identity making. In Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues , Steve Redhead shows how this tradition of youth culture of fandom has been eroded in the last years of the twentieth century by the more fleeting, style conscious allegiances inspired by television, films and music. The clubs that young people follow are determined by advertising and popular music; the games that they watch are brought to them by the globalized culture of television, as in the world cup staged in America; even their fears of so-called soccer hooliganism are determined by media-engendered moral panics at a time when the phenomenon itself seems to be dying away.