Books: 'Leisure time culture'

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Rojek, Chris. The labour of leisure: The culture of free time. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2010.

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The labour of leisure: The culture of free time. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2010.

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Killing time: Leisure and culture in southwestern Pennsylvania, 1800-1850. Pittsburgh, Penn: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.

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Temps sociaux et pratiques culturelles. Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2005.

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Cross, Gary S. Time and money: The making of consumer culture. London: Routledge, 1993.

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Samama, Leo. The Meaning of Music. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089649799.

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For virtually all of our lives, we are surrounded by music. From lullabies to radio to the praises sung in houses of worship, we encounter music at home and in the street, during work and in our leisure time, and not infrequently at birth and death. But what is music, and what does it mean to humans? How do we process it, and how do we create it? Musician Leo Samama discusses these and many other questions while shaping a vibrant picture of music's importance in human lives both past and present. What is remarkable is that music is recognised almost universally as a type of language that we can use to wordlessly communicate. We can hardly shut ourselves off from music, and considering its primal role in our lives, it comes as no surprise that few would ever want to. Able to transverse borders and appeal to the most disparate of individuals, music is both a tool and a gift, and as Samama shows, a unifying thread running throughout the cultural history of mankind.

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Honoré, Carl, and Carl Honoré. In praise of slowness: How a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed. [San Francisco]: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.

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In praise of slowness: Challenging the cult of speed. [San Francisco]: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.

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Statistics, Australian Bureau of, ed. Time use on culture/leisure activities. Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1999.

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Cara, Aitchison, Jordan Fiona, and Leisure Studies Association, eds. Gender, space and identity: Leisure, culture and commerce. Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, 1998.

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Kibler, M. Alison. Women at Play in Popular Culture. Edited by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222628.013.24.

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The story of women’s participation in popular culture is more complex than the struggle to be included. Feminist activists have fought for legislation to end discrimination in leisure, sports, and popular culture. At the same time, advertisers have coopted feminism to sell a variety of products as symbols of emancipation for women, substituting purchasing power for political power. Gaining visibility in the media and as target audiences, and breaking into male spheres have not been the end of these feminist struggles; rather, women who gained opportunities in sport and leisure were often stereotyped as “mannish” or cast in reassuring feminine roles—beauty icons or heterosexual romantic heroines. It is important to trace women’s pathbreaking roles as spectators, fans, performers, and athletes as well as show how sport and popular culture are fundamentally gendered.

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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time. Sarah Crichton Books, 2014.

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Free Time and Leisure Participation: International Perspectives. CABI, 2005.

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Grant, Cushman, Veal Anthony James, and Zuzanek Jiri, eds. Free time and leisure participation: International perspectives. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK: CABI Pub., 2005.

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Suman, Verma, and Larson Reed 1950-, eds. Examining adolescent leisure time across cultures: Developmental opportunities and risks. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

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Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Shippen, N. Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Anna, Olszewska, and Roberts Kenneth 1940-, eds. Leisure and life-style: A comparative analysis of free time. London: Sage Publications, 1989.

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Schulte, Brigid, and Tavia Gilbert. Overwhelmed. Brilliance Audio, 2015.

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Overwhelmed. Harper Perennial, 2015.

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Overwhelmed. HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.

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(Editor), G. Cushman, A. J. Veal (Editor), and J. Zuzanek (Editor), eds. World Leisure Participation: Free Time in the Global Village (Cabi Publishing). CABI, 1996.

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Spracklen, Karl. Developing a Cultural Theory of Music Making and Leisure. Edited by Roger Mantie and Gareth Dylan Smith. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.2.

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People listen to music in their leisure time, in leisure spaces, as a supposedly free act of agency. Yet social and cultural theorists show that leisure choices and spaces are constrained by hegemonic power, and that cultural forms such as music are products of commodification. This chapter explores these key claims for the use of music and the consumption of music in leisure spaces. It uses the work of Baudrillard on simulacra to explore the potential meaning and purpose of music in the lives of makers, listeners and fans—as a key device in constructing alternative hyperrealities to the capitalized reality of late modernity.

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Grant, Cushman, Veal Anthony James, Zuzanek Jiri, and World Leisure and Recreation Association. Commission on Research., eds. World leisure participation: Free time in the global village : a project of the World Leisure and Recreation Association, Commission on Research. Wallingford: CAB International, 1996.

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Mantie, Roger, and Gareth Dylan Smith, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.001.0001.

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Music has been a vital part of leisure activity across time and cultures. Contemporary commodification, commercialization, and consumerism, however, have created a chasm between conceptualizations of music making and numerous realities in our world. From a broad range of perspectives and approaches, this handbook explores avocational involvement with music (i.e., amateur, recreation) as an integral part of the human condition. The chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure present a myriad of ways for reconsidering—refocusing attention on—the rich, exciting, and emotionally charged ways in which people of all ages make time for making music through music learning and participation. The contexts discussed are broadly Western, including a diversity of voices from scholars across fields and disciplines, framing complex and multifaceted phenomena that may be helpfully, enlighteningly, and perhaps provocatively framed as music making and leisure. The book is structured in four parts: (I) Relationships to and with Music; (II) Involvement and Meaning; (III) Scenes, Spaces, and Places; and (IV) On the Diversity of Music Making and Leisure. This volume may be viewed as an attempt to reclaim music making and leisure as a serious concern for, among others, policy makers, scholars, and educators, who perhaps risk eliding some or even most of the ways in which music, so central to community and belonging, is integrated into the everyday lives of people. As such, this handbook looks beyond the obvious (of course music making is leisure!), asking readers to consider anew, “What might we see when we think of music making as leisure?”

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Mantie, Roger. Community Music and Rational Recreation. Edited by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Lee Higgins. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219505.013.25.

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Care and concern for the welfare of others is a central tenet of community music. Care often masks deeper issues of power and control, however. This chapter interrogates the nature of community music care and concern through an examination of the ancient Greek concept of schole, and the concept of ‘rational recreation,’ a term used to describe the paternalist practices of late nineteenth century reformers who, through a programme of social control, sought to ensure people engaged their leisure time ‘wisely.’ Through an examination of leisure, rational recreation, education, and mass leisure, questions are raised about the benevolent intentions and innocent assumptions often made in the name of community music practice and cultural democracy.

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Chua, Lawrence. Contemporary Buddhist Architecture. Edited by Michael Jerryson. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199362387.013.10.

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This chapter places the historical development of contemporary Buddhist architecture in its historical context. It examines the ways that architects, builders, and monastics have drawn on historical typologies like the stupa, the stambha, and the caitya hall in producing new spaces for the teaching, dissemination, and veneration of Buddhist thought and practices. Sites like Wat Phra Dhammakaya, the Erawan Museum, the Spiritual Theater at Suan Mokkh , the Water Temple, and the Water-Moon Monasteryhave sought to reconcile the reflective and pedagogical aspects of historic Buddhist architecture with the needs of contemporary lay communities, modern expectations of leisure time, and the development of new modes of sense perception within a globalized culture that privileges consumption over contemplation.

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Jones, Kathryn N., Carol Tully, and Heather Williams. Hidden Texts, Hidden Nation. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621433.001.0001.

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This book examines the representation of Wales and ‘Welshness’ in texts by French (including Breton) and German-speaking travellers from 1780 to the present day, focusing on key points in the period of Welsh modernisation from the Industrial Revolution to the post-devolution era. Since the emergence of the travel narrative as a popular source of information and entertainment in the mid-18^th century, writing about Wales has often been embedded and hidden in accounts of travel to ‘England’. This book seeks to redefine perceptions of Wales by problematizing the notion of ‘invisibility’ often ascribed to the Welsh context and by broadening perspectives outwards to encompass European perceptions. Works uncovered for the first time include travelogues, private correspondences, travel diaries, articles and blogs which have Wales or Welsh culture as their focus. The ‘travellers’ analysed in this volume ‘travellers’ feature those travelling for the purpose of leisure, scholarship or commerce as well as exiles and refugees. By focusing on Wales, a minoritized nation at the geographical periphery of Europe, the authors are able to problematize notions of hegemony and identity within the genre, relating to both the places encountered (the ‘travellee’ culture) and the places of origin (the travellers’ cultures). This book thereby makes an original contribution to studies in travel writing and provides an important case study of a culture often minoritized in the field, but that nevertheless provides a telling illustration of the dynamics of intercultural relations and representation.

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Assael, Brenda. Dining in the Restaurant. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817604.003.0007.

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Chapter 6 offers a sketch of those who ate out in London. It emphasizes the diversity of diners, defined in terms of both social class and, critically, gender. Here diners are mapped onto broader patterns of social change in the metropolis, notably suburbanization, the expansion of the service sector, and changing leisure patterns. The chapter pays attention to the increased presence of women eating out in order to locate the restaurant in wider discussions about the interconnections between the domestic and public spheres, and the emergence of new forms of hetero-sociability. By inserting the restaurant diner into our understanding of Victorian and Edwardian metropolitan culture, the chapter qualifies, and even repudiates, some of the dominant scholarly interpretations of how identities were fashioned and performed at this time.

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(Editor), Anna Olszewska, and Kenneth Roberts (Editor), eds. Leisure and Life-Style: A Comparative Analysis of Free Time (SAGE Studies in International Sociology). SAGE Publications, 1990.

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Calhoun, Cheshire. Living with Boredom. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190851866.003.0006.

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Rejecting the standard focus on boredom as a cultural or personal problem, this chapter examines how boredom illuminates the kinds of problems that evaluators face just in being evaluators. The chapter explores five reasons for boredom: (1) loss of temporal meaning; (2) normative constraints; (3) disappointment with present value qualities given the standards of what is worth attending to that one sets for oneself; (4) value satiety when spending extended time with a particular value quality exhausts one’s capacities to do anything more with it; and (5) leisure, whereby the agent is burdened with the task of finding things to do with herself.

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(Editor), Suman Verma, and Reed W. Larson (Editor), eds. Examining Adolescent Leisure Time Across Cultures: Developmental Opportunities and Risks: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development (J-B CAD Single Issue Child & Adolescent Development). Jossey-Bass, 2003.

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Dooley, Brendan, ed. The Continued Exercise of Reason. The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262535007.001.0001.

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George Boole (1815–1864), remembered by history as the developer of an eponymous form of algebraic logic, can be considered a pioneer of the information age not only because of the application of Boolean logic to the design of switching circuits but also because of his contributions to the mass distribution of knowledge. In the classroom and the lecture hall, Boole interpreted recent discoveries and debates in a wide range of fields for a general audience. This collection of lectures, many never before published, offers insights into the early thinking of an innovative mathematician and intellectual polymath. Bertrand Russell claimed that “pure mathematics was discovered by Boole,” but before Boole joined a university faculty as professor of mathematics in 1849, advocacy for science and education occupied much of his time. He was deeply committed to the Victorian ideals of social improvement and cooperation, arguing that “the continued exercise of reason” joined all disciplines in a common endeavor. In these talks, Boole discusses the genius of Isaac Newton; ancient mythologies and forms of worship; the possibility of other inhabited planets in the universe; the virtues of free and open access to knowledge; the benefits of leisure; the quality of education; the origin of scientific knowledge; and the fellowship of intellectual culture. The lectures are accompanied by a substantive introduction that supplies biographical and historical context.

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Schaumann, Caroline. Peak Pursuits. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300231946.001.0001.

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European forays to mountain summits began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the search for plants and minerals and the study of geology and glaciers. Yet scientists were soon captivated by the enterprise of climbing itself, enthralled with the views and the prospect of “conquering” alpine summits. Inspired by Romantic notions of nature, early mountaineers idealized their endeavors as sublime experiences, all the while deliberately measuring what they saw. As increased leisure time and advances in infrastructure and equipment opened up once formidable mountain regions to those seeking adventure and sport, new models of masculinity emerged that were fraught with tensions. This book examines how written and artistic depictions of nineteenth-century exploration and mountaineering in the Andes, the Alps, and the Sierra Nevada shaped cultural understandings of nature and wilderness in the Anthropocene.

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Howe, Justine. Suburban Islam. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190258870.001.0001.

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Suburban Islam explores how American Muslims have created new kinds of religious communities, known as third spaces, to navigate political and social pressures after 9/11. This book examines how one Chicago community, the Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb Foundation (Webb), has responded to the demands of proving Islam’s compatibility with liberal democracy and embracing the commonalities of their Abrahamic faith. Through dynamic forms of ritual practice, such as leisure activities, devotional practices such as the mawlid, and communal reading of sacred texts, the Webb community offers an alternative vision of American Islam. Appealing to an overarching American culture, the Webb community celebrates religious pluralism and middle-class consumerism, opens up leadership roles for women, and reimagines the United States as an ideal location for the practice of “authentic” Islam. In the process, they also seek to rehabilitate the public image of Islam. Suburban Islam analyzes these efforts as one slice of American Muslims’ heterogeneous and contingent institutionalizing practices in the twenty-first century. Suburban Islam examines how some American Muslims have intentionally set out to enact an Islam recognizable to others as American. Even as Webb intends to build a more inclusive and welcoming space, it also produces its own exclusions, elisions of extant racial and gender hierarchies, and unresolved tensions over the contours of American Muslim citizenship. As a case study, the Webb community demonstrates the multiple possibilities of American Islam. Through evolving practices and overlapping sets of relationships, this group continues to work out what American Islam means to them during a time in which Muslim and American are repeatedly cast as incompatible categories.

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1948-, Bradley Susan, and British Museum, eds. The interface between science and conservation. London: British Museum, 1997.

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