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Foreword | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Opening Pitch: Thinking about Sports Talk Radio | p. 1 |
Sports Talk Radio | p. 2 |
Theorizing Masculinities | p. 5 |
Development of Manhood in Twentieth-Century United States | p. 8 |
Masculinity and the Sports Media | p. 10 |
Media and Cultural Studies | p. 14 |
Critical Radio Studies | p. 15 |
Outline of the Book | p. 17 |
The Climate for Sports Talk Radio | |
The Sports Talk Radio Industry: From Rush to Rome | p. 21 |
Radio Deregulation and Talk Radio | p. 22 |
Sports Talk Radio: An Extension of Political Talk Radio? | p. 26 |
Inside the Sports Radio Industry: Ads and Lads | p. 28 |
Influence of Advertising, Ratings, and Corporate Radio | p. 29 |
Sports Radio and Public Discourse | p. 33 |
Romantic Belief in Sports | p. 37 |
Hanging Out at the Station | p. 43 |
Reading Sports Talk Radio | |
The Jim Rome Show: "Myspace.com" For Men | p. 53 |
Jim Rome: Hip Sports Talk Radio Host | p. 54 |
Speech Codes and Themes: Learning How to Survive in the Jungle | p. 58 |
The "Jungle": A Site for the Performance of Masculinity | p. 59 |
Male Rite of Passage on The Jim Rome Show | p. 61 |
In-Group Humor on The Jim Rome Show | p. 64 |
The Contradictions of Masculinity | p. 66 |
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Jungle | p. 68 |
Gender: Competing Masculinities | p. 69 |
Gender: Women in the Jungle | p. 72 |
Queer Eye for the Sports Guy | p. 75 |
The Race Card | p. 90 |
Rome Has No Class | p. 99 |
Jungle Nationalism | p. 102 |
Hegemony or Hope? Sports Talk Radio's Potential | p. 106 |
The Audience of Sports Talk Radio | |
In the Jungle with the "Clones" | p. 111 |
Interviewing the "Clones" | p. 112 |
The Entertainment Value | p. 117 |
Homosociality | p. 118 |
The Audience Does Social Issues | p. 120 |
Where Everybody Knows Your Name | p. 124 |
Cheers to Monday Night Football | p. 125 |
Lou From Lodi | p. 130 |
A Community of Callers | p. 136 |
Among the [Clones] Hooligans | p. 141 |
A Sports Radio Intruder | p. 148 |
My Take on the Audience of Sports Talk Radio | p. 151 |
My Final Take | p. 155 |
Sports Talk and Civic Discourse | p. 156 |
Sports and Sexuality | p. 159 |
Masculinity and Sports | p. 161 |
Notes | p. 165 |
Bibliography | p. 173 |
Index | p. 185 |
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