The Uses of Sport

Sport is an important part of cultural life, yet until recently it has tended to remain on the margins of academic cultural studies. This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry for the first time, and is an essential reference for any student of sport culture.

John Hughson is Principal Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at Wolverhampton. Marcus Free is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Wolverhampton. David Inglis is Lecturer in Sociology at Aberdeen.

1. Sport, Culture and Civilisation  2. Sport, Community and the Common Culture  3. Sport, Public Culture and Community: Letters from America  4. Sport and Popular Culture  5. Sport, Postmodernism and Culture  6. Sport, Power and the Material Relations of Culture  7. Sport, Culture and Embodied Experience  8. Sport, Culture and the Ethnographic Imagination  Conclusion: Sport and the 'City of Culture'