Nylund Beer, Babes, and Balls

Masculinity and Sports Talk Radio
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7942-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

Looks at contemporary sports talk radio and its relations to both traditional and newer forms of masculinity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nylund, David

Weitere Mitwirkende

Anderson, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Nachrichten- und Kommunikationstechnik Funktechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Eric Anderson
Acknowledgments

1. Opening Pitch: Thinking about Sports Talk Radio

Sports Talk Radio
Theorizing Masculinities
Development of Manhood in Twentieth-Century United States
Masculinity and the Sports Media
Media and Cultural Studies
Critical Radio Studies
Outline of the Book

Part I THE CLIMATE FOR SPORTS TALK RADIO

2. The Sports Talk Radio Industry: From Rush to Rome

Radio Deregulation and Talk Radio
Sports Talk Radio: An Extension of Political Talk Radio?

3. Inside the Sports Radio Industry: Ads and Lads

Influence of Advertising, Ratings, and Corporate Radio
Sports Radio and Public Discourse
Romantic Belief in Sports
Hanging Out at the Station

Part II READING SPORTS TALK RADIO

4. The Jim Rome Show: “Myspace.Com” For Men

Jim Rome: Hip Sports Talk Radio Host
Speech Codes and Themes: Learning How to Survive in the Jungle
The “Jungle”: A Site for the Performance of Masculinity
Male Rite of Passage on The Jim Rome Show
In-Group Humor on The Jim Rome Show
The Contradictions of Masculinity

5. Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Jungle

Gender: Competing Masculinities
Gender: Women in the Jungle
Queer Eye for the Sports Guy
The Race Card
Rome Has No Class
Jungle Nationalism
Hegemony or Hope? Sports Talk Radio’s Potential

Part III THE AUDIENCE OF SPORTS TALK RADIO

6. In the Jungle with the “Clones”

Interviewing the “Clones”
The Entertainment Value
Homosociality
The Audience Does Social Issues

7. Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Cheers to Monday Night Football
Lou From Lodi
A Community of Callers
Among the Clones Hooligans

8. A Sports Radio Intruder

My Take on the Audience of Sports Talk Radio

9. My Final Take

Sports Talk and Civic Discourse
Sports and Sexuality
Masculinity and Sports

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Nylund is Assistant Professor of Social Work at California State University at Sacramento. He is the author of Treating Huckleberry Finn: A New Narrative Approach to Working with Kids Diagnosed ADD/ADHD and the coeditor (with Craig Smith) of Narrative Therapies with Children and Adolescents.