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Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course

Laura Fenton , Thomas Thurnell-Read

This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with...



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Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood

Catherine Hoad

This book addresses how whiteness is represented in heavy metal scenes and practices, both as a site of academic inquiry and force of cultural significance. The author argues that whiteness, and more specifically white masculinity, has been given normative value...



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Football Fans and Social Spacing

Ian Woolsey

This book is about the relationship between leisure and power. More specifically, it theorizes a group of supporters’ attempts to control social space within and around English football stadiums. Not only is football a popular leisure form, it is also one which has...



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Leisure in Later Life

Tania Wiseman

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicatedin later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are manyunanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, olderpeople, and this book asks what it is really...



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An Ethnography of Urban Exploration

Kevin P. Bingham

This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban exploration; the art of exploring human-made environments which are generally abandoned or hidden from sight of the public eye. Drawing on Michel...



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Transnational Flamenco

Tenley Martin

This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene.  Utilising a postnational approach to cultural identity, Martin explores the role of non-native culture brokers in cultural...



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Becoming and Being a Camp Counsellor

Mandi Baker

This book explores the complexities of the recreational summer camp experience and its reliance on the expertise and emotion work of young people. Drawing on post-structural theory, Baker illustrates the discourses, power relations and emotional demands that shape camp...



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Cosplay and the Art of Play

Garry Crawford , David Hancock

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.  Drawing on new and original ethnographic data, as well as the innovative use of...



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Time, Freedom and the Self

Michelle Shir-Wise

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self. In an attempt to fill this gap, Michelle Shir-Wise...



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Sounds and the City

Brett Lashua , Karl Spracklen , Stephen Wagg , M. Selim Yavuz

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,...



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