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Football and music are both ubiquitous in contemporary society, and similarly ubiquitously devalued in the humanities and social sciences. This rests upon both their vernacular omnipresence in our culture, but is also the result of deeper shared connection to our somatic presence in the world. Part of the power of football and its songs, chants and tunes is in its double-sided agency to construct social belonging and division. The power of gendered, racial, ethnic and political constructions of Self and Other do not simply emerge in text and talk but for football and music, are deeply embedded in our somatic sense of Self and the visceral connection to others. This emerges in multimodal metaphors sung and chanted at or around football matches. In this chapter, I focus in on the metaphorical use of somatic or embodied multimodal musical texts which reveals some important connections between our embodied Self, and crucially, how we construct social distance between our Selves and Others. I argue that this attention to the metaphorical and somatic discourse of football songs is important because of what it reveals about our socially constructed embodied lives.
Author(s): McKerrell S
Editor(s): Stephen R. Millar, Martin J. Power, Paul Widdop, Daniel Parnell, James Carr
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Football and Popular Culture, Singing Out from the Stands
Year: 2021
Online publication date: 18/05/2032
Acceptance date: 07/07/2020
Series Title: Critical Research in Football Series
Publisher: Routledge
Place Published: London
URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003002604
DOI: 10.4324/9781003002604
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9780367433505