Roman Horak
Biographic Data
| ID | 156499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roman Horak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roman |
| FAMILY NAME | Horak |
| SIGNATURE | HORAK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Applied Arts Vienna |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Analysis of Trends in Defence Funding in the Member States of the North Atlantic Alliance
The aim of the article is to analyse the impact of the development of security threats on the financing of the defence capabilities of NATO states. The author is based on the theory of defence financing as a public good and the analysis of empirical data on the development of defence spending and the negative impact of the “free rider”. In the first part, attention is paid to the theoretical definition of defence from the point of view of economi…
Cultural Studies revisited: Nordlicht/Revontulet - Aufbruch in Österreich und internationale Entwicklung
Translation, Cultural Translation and the Hegemonic English
This brief chapter problematizes the hegemonic position of the English language in Cultural Studies, which, in the author's view, can be understood as a moment that stands against a true internationalisation of the project. Following an argument referring to the necessary 'translation' process (here seen as 're-articulation', 'transcoding' or 'transculturation') Stuart Hall has put forward almost two decades ago, the essay, firstly, turns to the …
We Have Become Niggers: Josephine Baker as a Threat to Viennese Culture
Early 1928 Josephine Baker, by that time a famous dancer and singer, came to Vienna to be part of a vaudeville show. Even before her arrival the waves went high - her possible presence in Vienna caused a major uproar there. Various commentators constructed an image of Baker that was based on the assumption that she was seriously attacked on the values of traditional European culture and, furthermore, true Viennese culture. In my essay, where I ad…
Introduction: Pursuing the Trivial
No abstract available
The Lost Film: Vienna 1924, the footballer as movie star
In 1922 the song Heute spielt der Uridil (Uridil is Playing Today) was first published and sung in the music halls of Vienna. The song, a lively foxtrot, was described on its score as a ‘Foot‐ball
About Raymond Williams
Dedication and Preface Roman Horak and Monika Seidl 1. Raymond Williams. Towards Cultural Materialism: An Introduction Roman Horak and Monika Seidl 2. Raymond Williams and the Absent Modernity Lawrence Grossberg 3. All forms of signification John Storey 4. The perspectives of radical democracy. Raymond Williams' work and its significance for a critical social theory Rainer Winter 5. The 1968 May Day Manifesto Stephen Woodhams 6. Fellow-Travelers …
Rave on: The effects and effectiveness of popular music
Precarious Intellectuals: On the re-structuring of academic life and the précarisation of the ‘free researchers’ in Austria
Sport Space and National Identity: Soccer and Skiing as Formative Forces: On the Austrian Example
This contribution will discuss how the formation of a national sport space interacts with the development of national self-awareness and national identity with reference to the Austrian case. It will be argued that the growing of an Austrian identity is not merely synchronous with the establishment of an Austrian sport space but that this nation-building process has been helped along substantially by the "Austrification" of two leading sports: ur…
Sport und Cultural Studies: Zur ungleichzeitigen Formierung eines Forschungsfeldes
Cultural Studies in Germany Revisited
This contribution takes up the arguments developed in the essay ‘Cultural Studies in Germany (and Austria): why is there no such thing?’ (European Journal of Cultural Studies (1999), 2(1): 109-15). It refers, however,only to the German reception of cultural studies and focuses on the different ways cultural studies have become influential in various contexts since the 1970s. Three major stages can, roughly, be detected. The first comes from a new…
Cultural studies in Germany (and Austria: And Why There Is No Such Thing
This article will examine some reasons why until recently cultural studies did not have much of an importance in the academia of both Germany and Austria. It will give a brief overview of the reception of cultural studies' work on youth culture in the early eighties which led to the wrong impression that cultural studies was basically about the study of youth. It will then be argued that the importance of the concept of 'high culture' (the fine a…
The Social Composition of Football Crowds in Western Europe: A Comparative Study
This paper reviews studies of football fans that were carried out in England, Scotland, Spain, France, Belgium and Austria. The object of these studies was to discover details about the age, sex, occupations and ethnic backgrounds of fans. The data indicated that the fans were predominantly young and male, but that the game's appeal was not limited to particular occupational groups. No clear pattern could be identified according to ethnicity
A culture of urban cosmopolitanism: Uridil and Sindelar as Viennese coffee‐house heroes
(1996). A culture of urban cosmopolitanism: Uridil and Sindelar as Viennese coffee‐house heroes. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 13, European Heroes Myth, Identity, Sport, pp. 139-155
Viennese football culture: Some remarks on its History and Sociology
Football is still the most popular sport in Austria; yet its cultural meaning has changed. In this essay it is argued that the specific Viennese football culture of the interwar years (characterized by locality, strong commitment to a particular club, Bohemian elements etc.) has since the sixties been strongly challenged and gradually been replaced by a modernized, internationalized and media‐oriented ‘Austrian ‘ image
Things Change: Trends in Austrian Football Hooliganism from 1977-1990
The essay argues that the European phenomenon of football hooliganism should be discussed in the context of the process of internationalization and standardization of youth subcultures. In outlining general developmental steps soccer hooliganism in Austria is being discussed to illustrate this argument. The essay distinguishes three different 'fan-generations' which came into being in a context of changing social conditions especially regarding t…
Sport Space and National Identity: Soccer and Skiing as Formative Forces: On the Austrian Example
This contribution will discuss how the formation of a national sport space interacts with the development of national self-awareness and national identity with reference to the Austrian case. It will be argued that the growing of an Austrian identity is not merely synchronous with the establishment of an Austrian sport space but that this nation-building process has been helped along substantially by the "Austrification" of two leading sports: ur…
Cultural studies in Germany (and Austria: And Why There Is No Such Thing
This article will examine some reasons why until recently cultural studies did not have much of an importance in the academia of both Germany and Austria. It will give a brief overview of the reception of cultural studies' work on youth culture in the early eighties which led to the wrong impression that cultural studies was basically about the study of youth. It will then be argued that the importance of the concept of 'high culture' (the fine a…
A culture of urban cosmopolitanism: Uridil and Sindelar as Viennese coffee‐house heroes
(1996). A culture of urban cosmopolitanism: Uridil and Sindelar as Viennese coffee‐house heroes. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 13, European Heroes Myth, Identity, Sport, pp. 139-155
The Social Composition of Football Crowds in Western Europe: A Comparative Study
This paper reviews studies of football fans that were carried out in England, Scotland, Spain, France, Belgium and Austria. The object of these studies was to discover details about the age, sex, occupations and ethnic backgrounds of fans. The data indicated that the fans were predominantly young and male, but that the game's appeal was not limited to particular occupational groups. No clear pattern could be identified according to ethnicity
Cultural Studies revisited: Nordlicht/Revontulet - Aufbruch in Österreich und internationale Entwicklung
Things Change: Trends in Austrian Football Hooliganism from 1977-1990
The essay argues that the European phenomenon of football hooliganism should be discussed in the context of the process of internationalization and standardization of youth subcultures. In outlining general developmental steps soccer hooliganism in Austria is being discussed to illustrate this argument. The essay distinguishes three different 'fan-generations' which came into being in a context of changing social conditions especially regarding t…
Things Change: Trends in Austrian Football Hooliganism from 1977-1990
The essay argues that the European phenomenon of football hooliganism should be discussed in the context of the process of internationalization and standardization of youth subcultures. In outlining general developmental steps soccer hooliganism in Austria is being discussed to illustrate this argument. The essay distinguishes three different 'fan-generations' which came into being in a context of changing social conditions especially regarding t…
Viennese football culture: Some remarks on its History and Sociology
Football is still the most popular sport in Austria; yet its cultural meaning has changed. In this essay it is argued that the specific Viennese football culture of the interwar years (characterized by locality, strong commitment to a particular club, Bohemian elements etc.) has since the sixties been strongly challenged and gradually been replaced by a modernized, internationalized and media‐oriented ‘Austrian ‘ image
A culture of urban cosmopolitanism: Uridil and Sindelar as Viennese coffee‐house heroes
(1996). A culture of urban cosmopolitanism: Uridil and Sindelar as Viennese coffee‐house heroes. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 13, European Heroes Myth, Identity, Sport, pp. 139-155
The Social Composition of Football Crowds in Western Europe: A Comparative Study
This paper reviews studies of football fans that were carried out in England, Scotland, Spain, France, Belgium and Austria. The object of these studies was to discover details about the age, sex, occupations and ethnic backgrounds of fans. The data indicated that the fans were predominantly young and male, but that the game's appeal was not limited to particular occupational groups. No clear pattern could be identified according to ethnicity
Cultural studies in Germany (and Austria: And Why There Is No Such Thing
This article will examine some reasons why until recently cultural studies did not have much of an importance in the academia of both Germany and Austria. It will give a brief overview of the reception of cultural studies' work on youth culture in the early eighties which led to the wrong impression that cultural studies was basically about the study of youth. It will then be argued that the importance of the concept of 'high culture' (the fine a…
Sport und Cultural Studies: Zur ungleichzeitigen Formierung eines Forschungsfeldes
Cultural Studies in Germany Revisited
This contribution takes up the arguments developed in the essay ‘Cultural Studies in Germany (and Austria): why is there no such thing?’ (European Journal of Cultural Studies (1999), 2(1): 109-15). It refers, however,only to the German reception of cultural studies and focuses on the different ways cultural studies have become influential in various contexts since the 1970s. Three major stages can, roughly, be detected. The first comes from a new…
Sport Space and National Identity: Soccer and Skiing as Formative Forces: On the Austrian Example
This contribution will discuss how the formation of a national sport space interacts with the development of national self-awareness and national identity with reference to the Austrian case. It will be argued that the growing of an Austrian identity is not merely synchronous with the establishment of an Austrian sport space but that this nation-building process has been helped along substantially by the "Austrification" of two leading sports: ur…
Precarious Intellectuals: On the re-structuring of academic life and the précarisation of the ‘free researchers’ in Austria
About Raymond Williams
Dedication and Preface Roman Horak and Monika Seidl 1. Raymond Williams. Towards Cultural Materialism: An Introduction Roman Horak and Monika Seidl 2. Raymond Williams and the Absent Modernity Lawrence Grossberg 3. All forms of signification John Storey 4. The perspectives of radical democracy. Raymond Williams' work and its significance for a critical social theory Rainer Winter 5. The 1968 May Day Manifesto Stephen Woodhams 6. Fellow-Travelers …
Rave on: The effects and effectiveness of popular music
The Lost Film: Vienna 1924, the footballer as movie star
In 1922 the song Heute spielt der Uridil (Uridil is Playing Today) was first published and sung in the music halls of Vienna. The song, a lively foxtrot, was described on its score as a ‘Foot‐ball
We Have Become Niggers: Josephine Baker as a Threat to Viennese Culture
Early 1928 Josephine Baker, by that time a famous dancer and singer, came to Vienna to be part of a vaudeville show. Even before her arrival the waves went high - her possible presence in Vienna caused a major uproar there. Various commentators constructed an image of Baker that was based on the assumption that she was seriously attacked on the values of traditional European culture and, furthermore, true Viennese culture. In my essay, where I ad…
Introduction: Pursuing the Trivial
No abstract available
Translation, Cultural Translation and the Hegemonic English
This brief chapter problematizes the hegemonic position of the English language in Cultural Studies, which, in the author's view, can be understood as a moment that stands against a true internationalisation of the project. Following an argument referring to the necessary 'translation' process (here seen as 're-articulation', 'transcoding' or 'transculturation') Stuart Hall has put forward almost two decades ago, the essay, firstly, turns to the …
Cultural Studies revisited: Nordlicht/Revontulet - Aufbruch in Österreich und internationale Entwicklung
Analysis of Trends in Defence Funding in the Member States of the North Atlantic Alliance
The aim of the article is to analyse the impact of the development of security threats on the financing of the defence capabilities of NATO states. The author is based on the theory of defence financing as a public good and the analysis of empirical data on the development of defence spending and the negative impact of the “free rider”. In the first part, attention is paid to the theoretical definition of defence from the point of view of economi…
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