Songs From The Barmy Army

Author : Paul Winslow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781849836753

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Songs From the Barmy Army by Paul Winslow Pdf

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.

Author : Anthony Bateman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317650409

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Sport, Music, Identities by Anthony Bateman Pdf

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.

Author : Pete Christopher
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781447674009

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Barmy Days and Balmy Nights by Pete Christopher Pdf

Supporters went to watch England play cricket overseas well before anyone had heard of cricket's Barmy Army, but what was it like? Pete Christopher's book tells the story of being on supporter tours visiting Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, the West Indies, and South Africa, watching England win, draw, but mainly losing cricket matches. The book charts the rise of England's Barmy Army group of fans, from backpacker's funding their day's cricket by selling t-shirts, to the oft witnessed and TV highlighted organised assemblages now seen at Test matches. The author also describes the cricket matches he witnessed, countries and places he visits, and the sights he was lucky enough to see - a cricket travelogue from moments in time.

Author : Ben Dirs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780857208378

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Everywhere We Went by Ben Dirs Pdf

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.

Author : Dominic Malcolm
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781849665278

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Globalizing Cricket by Dominic Malcolm Pdf

Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of cricket's of development, diffusion of cricket through colonization, and impact on the changing notions of English national identity.

Author : Aaron C.T. Smith,Bob Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317691440

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Introduction to Sport Marketing by Aaron C.T. Smith,Bob Stewart Pdf

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.

Author : James Harkin,Anna Ptaszynski
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780571393992

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A Load of Old Balls by James Harkin,Anna Ptaszynski Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS ' Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES 'The trivia book of the season . . . magnificent.' SPECTATOR Did you know that Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots? Or that David Attenborough is responsible for yellow tennis balls? A Load of Old Balls is the curious story of us and sport. It's about our mind-blowingly determined attempts to be the fastest, the strongest, the most skilful. In this endlessly entertaining tale of play and belonging, astonishing violence and jaw-dropping cheating, we learn what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed and discover why Michael Palin was disqualified from a conker tournament. Crossing millennia, continents and cultures, Harkin and Ptaszynski - the brainy researchers for BBC's QI and co-hosts of No Such Thing As A Fish -show us sport as we've never seen it before. ** Published in hardback as Everything to Play For. ** 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.

Author : Stefan Szymanski,Tim Wigmore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472992772

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Crickonomics by Stefan Szymanski,Tim Wigmore Pdf

“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.

Author : Steve Redhead
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : 0719028272

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The End of the Century Party by Steve Redhead Pdf

"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.

Author : Jane Ali-Knight,Alan Fyall,Martin Robertson,Adele Ladkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136438967

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International Perspectives of Festivals and Events by Jane Ali-Knight,Alan Fyall,Martin Robertson,Adele Ladkin Pdf

International Perspectives of Festivals and Events addresses contemporary issues concerning the potential of festivals and events to produce economic, social, cultural and community benefits. Incorporating a range of international perspectives, the book provides the reader with a global look at current trends and topics, which have until now, been underrepresented by current literature. International Perspectives of Festivals and Events includes a broad range of research, case studies and examples from well-known scholars in the field to form a unified volume that informs the reader of the current status of festivals and events around the world. In a fast-moving industry where new theory and practice is implemented rapidly, this is essential reading for any advanced student or researcher in festivals and events.

Author : Steve Redhead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134821143

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Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues by Steve Redhead Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports
ISBN : WISC:89098185432

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International Review for the Sociology of Sport by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : PRNC:32101068141041

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My Army, O, My Army by Henry Lawson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Popular music
ISBN : UCSD:31822033626011

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Global Rhythm by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112077063482

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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf