tailieunhanh - Terrace Heroes The life and times of the 1930s professional footballer

This passionate partisan piece of doggerel in support of past Everton heroes chanted en masse in my boyhood primary school playground, has continued to reverberate in my head down the years. Heroes sometimes achieve immortality in odd ways! Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton were ‘Terrace Heroes’ of my north-western childhood. Graham Kelly has added to this small but sacred pantheon with his study of the lives and times of his Topical Times Ten. He places them in their cultural context, explains their social purpose and explores their common significance. This makes good sense. His Heroes, in part or in whole, personified period values | GRAHAM KELLY TERELACE HEROES THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE 1930 S PROFESSIONALFOTBALLER Also available as a printed book see title verso for ISBN details Terrace Heroes The 1930s saw the birth of the football idol the terrace hero prototypes for today s powerful media sport stars. The players of the 1930s were the first generation of what we now regard as professionals yet until recently the lives and careers of footballers of this era have been little studied. During the 1930s British football became increasingly commercialised and the rise and development of both local and national media in particular broadcast media enabled players to become widely recognised outside of their immediate local context for the first time. Tracing the origins playing careers and afterlives of several First Division players of the era Graham Kelly s revealing history explores the reality of living in Britain in the 1930s and draws comparisons with lives of our contemporary terrace heroes the football stars of today. Graham Kelly is Head of Postgraduate Programmes and Research at the Lancashire Business School University of Central Lancashire UK. He is also a founder member of the university s International Football Institute. Sport in the global society General Editors . Mangan and Boria Majumdar The interest in sports studies around the world is growing and will continue to do so. This unique series combines aspects of the expanding study of sport in the global society providing comprehensiveness and comparison under one editorial umbrella. It is particularly timely with studies in the cultural economic ethnographic geographical political social anthropological sociological and aesthetic elements of sport proliferating in institutions of higher education. Eric Hobsbawm once called sport one of the most significant practices of the late nineteenth century. Its significance was even more marked in the late twentieth century and will continue to grow in importance into the new .

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