Soccer sounds
Popular music and football in Britain
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v8i3.26933Keywords:
popular music, folk process, brass bands, football records, meditation, televised sportAbstract
This paper explores the range of ways that music and football have been interlinked in the United Kingdom over the past century. The aspects covered include early novelty songs, music at stadia (marching bands, customisation of songs by fans, and PA music) and mediated music, in the form of records by club and national teams as well as professional singers, plus the musical components of television shows devoted to football. The article highlights the continuing struggle between music from below and above, in both sports venues and media.
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Harker, Dave. 2012. Gannin’ to Blaydon Races! The Life and Times of George Ridley. Newcastle upon Tyne: Tyne Bridge Publishing.
Haynes, Richard. 1995. The Football Imagination: The Rise of Football Fanzine Culture. Aldershot: Arena.
Johnson, Bruce, and Martin Cloonan. 2009. Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence. Farnham: Ashgate.
King, Anthony. 2004. ‘The New Symbols of European Football’. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 39/3: 323–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690204045599
Marples, Morris. 1954. A History of Football. London: Secker & Warburg.
Marsden, Gerry, with Ray Coleman. 1993. You’ll Never Walk Alone: An Autobiography. London: Bloomsbury.
Motson, John. 2005. FA Cup Odyssey. London: Robson.
Osborne, Richard. 2012. Vinyl: History of the Analogue Record. Farnham: Ashgate.
Paytress, Mark. 1996. ‘Football Crazy!’ Record Collector 202 (June): 32–43.
Rochdale Observer. 2006. ‘Soccer Anthems? They’re Just Copying our Gracie’. 2 June.
Russell, Dave. 2008. ‘Abiding Memories: The Community Singing Movement and English Social Life in the 1920s’. Popular Music 27/1 (January): 117–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0261143008001505
Sampson, Kevin. 2001. ‘Taking the Biscuit’. The Guardian. 21 July.
Shepherd, John et al. 1997. Popular Music Studies. A Select International Bibliography. London: Mansell.
Stanley, Bob. 2013. Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. London: Faber.
Taylor, Matthew. 2008. The Association Game. London: Pearson Longman.
Thrills, Adrian. 1998. You’re Not Singing Anymore. London: Ebury Press.
Walvin, James. 1975. The People’s Game: A Social History of British Football. London: Allen Lane.
Winner, David. 2005. Those Feet: A Sensual History of English Football. London: Bloomsbury.
Young, Percy M. 1968. A History of British Football. London: Stanley Paul & Co.
Published
2015-03-30
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How to Cite
Laing, D., & Linehan, A. (2015). Soccer sounds: Popular music and football in Britain. Popular Music History, 8(3), 307-325. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v8i3.26933
