Steve Redhead
Steve Redhead, who died in March 2018, was Professor of Sports Media, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia. He was formerly Professor of Law and Popular Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he created and directed the Unit for Law and Popular Culture and the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture research centres. He was co-editor of Berg’s Subcultural Fashion book series and was on many editorial boards of international collaborations, including Sage’s Handbook of Ethnography and the online journals IM-Interactive Media and Entertainment and Sports Law. He was the author of several books and articles on subculture, popular culture, popular music, sport and media cultures.
13 articles
List of articles in the library
Bob Dylan: The Last Supper Club: On Bob Dylan’s Late Style
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, 2006
"GOOD EVENING, ladies and gentlemen. Would you please welcome Columbia recording artist, Bob Dylan." ...
The Cultural Politics Of 'Pop': Hanif Kureishi's Life In Popular Culture
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, 13 November 2006
THIS ESSAY IS on the cultural politics of Pop. It situates an emblematic writer, Hanif Kureishi, in the context of post-war Pop art and culture ...
They Think It's All Over? The Slight Return Of Football Hooligan Subcultures
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, 2007
ONCE AGAIN the book shelves are heaving, a few weeks before a new season, with football hooligan memoirs. One of the best of these 'histories' ...
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, March 2007
BACKPOOL ROX II, issue 9, price £2, came out at the end of last year. You won't find it referred to in Babylon's Burning, the ...
Richard Thompson: The Dust Of History: Forty Years Of Richard Thompson's Guitar/Vocal
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, 23 July 2007
'But I'll be a friend and tell you what's in storeThere's nothing at the end of the rainbowThere's nothing to grow up for anymore''The End ...
Happy Mondays: Salford Lads Club
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, August 2007
'YOU SALFORD NANCY Boy!' was a regular insult hurled from the wings at the late Anthony H. Wilson, educated at De La Salle College in ...
Culture's Coming Home? Liverpool And Pop
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, April 2008
LIVERPOOL ONE! The slogan for a new regenerated port city, European Capital of Culture, 2008. Liverpool One is the name for a retail project in ...
Pet Shop Boys: Pop Into Art: Post-Punk Aesthetics Revisited
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, May 2008
"Girls, Boys, Art, Pleasure"– Chris Lowe, Pet Shop Boys, 'Paninaro 95' ...
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Ten Years After The Repetitive Beat Generation
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, July 2008
OVER A decade ago I researched the rise and fall of a British publishing phenomenon – the so called 'cult fiction' of writers like Nicholas ...
The Fields Of Annie Road: Song For The 96
Comment by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, April 2009
ANFIELD ROAD, or 'Annie Road' (Allt, 2005), is the opposite 'end' to Liverpool's Kop at their world famous football stadium of Anfield. ...
Manchester Studies: Reading John Robb's The North Will Rise Again
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, June 2009
The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City 1976-1996 John Robb (Aurum, 2009, £16.99) ...
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, September 2011
POP HISTORY seemed, for some commentators at least, to have stopped sometime in the late 1980s. This was the 'postmodern' moment for many critics and ...
New Order: Lost Years in Original Modernity? On Listening to New Order's Lost Sirens
Retrospective by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, March 2013
THIRTY SEVEN Year Party People! Since Ian Curtis, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook began playing regularly as Joy Division in 1978, that's effectively ...
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