Notebook
Published 2012-07-01
Keywords
- rock music,
- hooliganism,
- national identity,
- epic narrative,
- social realism
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyse the musical representation of thugs violence in football in contemporary British hooligan films (1995-2009). Apart from authenticating the reconstruction of Britain’s recent history, the use of rock as part of the original soundtrack contributes to the glamourisation of football violence in the past and ignites the epic and military identification between the politics of music and sport. I will conclude by arguing that the diversity of musical trends and styles of British bands imitates the plural and multifarious nature of football supporters, whose disparity is only reconciled by their club symbols and their national identity.References
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KING, Anthony (1997). The Postmodernity of Football Hooliganism. The British Journal of Sociology, 4, 576-593.
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LOWLES, Nick, y NICHOLLS, Andy (2005). The A-Z of Britain’s Football Hooligan Gangs. Reading: Milo Books, 2 vols.
MANDLER, Peter (2006). The English National Character. The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair. New Haven y Londres: Yale UP.
MARSH, Peter E. (1977). Football Hooliganism: Fact or Fiction. British Journal of Law and Society, 2, 256-259.
PAXMAN, Jeremy (1998). The English. Londres: Penguin.
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