Andrew D Linden
Biographic Data
| ID | 257377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew D Linden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew D |
| FAMILY NAME | Linden |
| SIGNATURE | LINDEN A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9578-2807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line
Dance is an integral aspect of how humans interact with the world. Historians have usually studied dance through its aesthetic meaning. In Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line, dance scholar Rachel Carrico looks beyond simply the visuals of dancers marching down the streets of the downtown wards and the French Quarter on the banks of the Mississippi River. She contends these “organized brass band processions” (1) that t…
Looking at the Past, Thinking about the Future
As the articles in this special issue have shown, the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), and the discipline of sport history more broadly, has changed in many ways over the past fifty years. Since 1974, NASSH has published the Journal of Sport History (JSH), which includes peer-reviewed, primary-sourced, and historiographical articles; book, film, and museum reviews; research notes; and forums dedicated to the history of sport and …
Race but Not Racism
An analysis of The Jesse Owens Story (1984) and Race (2016) provides a unique opportunity to examine the portrayal of race relations in popular culture as the biopics offer two different versions of the same life lived. Whereas The Jesse Owens Story chronicles Owens’s life from birth to death, Race focuses on the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Despite being released over thirty years apart, the biopics nevertheless embrace similar tropes and reinforce par…
Powerful Lessons' in Women's Sport
In 2013, ESPN launched a series of documentaries to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX. The Nine for IX documentaries tell stories of successful women in sport and tackle pertinent gender- and sex-related issues, promising to teach popular audiences about the untold histories of women's sport. Because of the series' place in ESPN's marketing efforts to reach women, we consider the series as ideological work through which women's sport his…
Manning Up
Debuting in 2013, Esquire Network's first season of White Collar Brawlers features professional-class men with workplace conflicts looking to 'settle the score in the ring.' In the show, white-collar men are portrayed as using boxing to reclaim ostensibly primal aspects of masculinity, which their professional lives do not provide, making them appear as better men and more productive constituents of a postindustrial service economy. Through this …
From Beach Nymph to Gridiron Amazon”
Although American football has primarily been a sport populated by boys and men, girls and women have participated for over 100 years. The media have covered these stories since the turn of the 20th century. Informed by feminist sport studies literature, this research examines media coverage of women footballers in the United States by conducting a textual analysis of over 100 articles from 1934 to 1979. Journalists who covered women encroaching …
Writing Sport Online
Opportunities abound for scholars’ digital engagement. Among the numerous available technologies, blogging has emerged as a medium that presents both opportunities and challenges for academics. Although scholars have reflected on the values and drawbacks of blogging in academia, few have specifically analyzed academic sport blogs. This paper uses a content analysis of six sport-specific online forums to examine the composition of contributors and…
Tempering the Dichotomous Flame
In the June 2014 issue of the Journal of American History, which includes a forum titled “State of the Field: Sports in American History,” Amy Bass argues that, as many humanities-based disciplines adopted tenets of cultural history, sport history did not. Based on over a decade of debate about social, cultural, and postmodernist paradigms, Bass’s assertion illuminates continuing historiographical arguments about epistemology and theory in sport …
Revolution on the American Gridiron
Scholarship on the 1970s ‘women’s movement’ in the USA has grown in recent years. However, this area has yet to fully incorporate women’s athletic experiences. This paper brings together these two areas of scholarship through analysis of women’s experiences playing professional football in 1970s America. Women athletes articulated little connection between football and the larger feminist campaign for corporeal autonomy and equality and some pron…
Lt
Book Review| July 01 2015 LT: The Life & Times LT: The Life & Times, (2013). Dir. Peter Radovich. Prod. Steve Karasik. Showtime Sports. 108 mins. Andrew D. Linden Andrew D. Linden Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2015) 42 (2): 230–231. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.42.2.0230 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew D. Linden…
"Blue-Collar Identity and the "Culture of Losing
In November 1995, Cleveland football fans began the "Save Our Browns" campaign after owner Art Modell announced he would move the team to Baltimore after the season. By February 1996, the initiative influenced the National Football League’s decision to allow Cleveland to keep the legacy of the Browns and offer the city a new team. Letters found at the Pro Football Hall of Fame show how the Save Our Browns campaign illuminated a "culture of losing…
Getting Physical
Book Review| April 01 2015 Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America McKenzie, Shelly. Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. Pp. viii+182 with illustrations. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 cloth. Andrew D. Linden; Andrew D. Linden The Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Adam Berg Adam Berg The Pennsylvania St…
Disrupting Dominant Discourses
Feminist sport scholars have observed the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women athletes and women's sports in media with great concern (Cheryl Cooky, Michael A. Messner, and Robin Hex
A Brief Taxonomy of Sports that Were Not Quite American National Pastimes
Several sports have served as American national pastimes over the course of the nation's history. Horse racing, hunting, prize fighting, baseball, football, and basketball have waxed and waned in a long series of debates over what constitutes ‘true' national pastimes. Unlike some nations that have declared national pastimes by governmental fiat, US national games emerge from organic and sometimes chaotic cultural processes. An alternative history…
From Ladies' Days to Women's Initiatives
American entrepreneurs have, for more than a century, sought to cultivate female consumers of national pastimes, specifically horse racing, boxing, baseball, football and basketball. Because these sports have been principally and historically associated with manliness and masculinity, it is more appropriate to think in terms of women's involvement and consumption, as opposed to their athletic participation when it comes to ‘pastime' status. Marke…
Money Games
Book Review| July 01 2013 Money Games: Profiting from the Convergence of Sports and Entertainment Carter, David M. Money Games: Profiting from the Convergence of Sports and Entertainment. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011. Pp. ix+304. Notes and index. $29.95 cb. Andrew D. Linden Andrew D. Linden Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2013) 40 (2): 334–335.…
Looking at Losing
On November 6, 1995, Art Modell announced his intention to relocate the National Football League's (NFL) Cleveland Browns to Baltimore following the season. After 4 months of civic activism from Cleveland's community and legal action from the city's politicians, Cleveland, the NFL and Modell agreed to a deal that allowed the long-time owner to honour his contract with Baltimore and simultaneously provided a NFL club to Cleveland to begin play in …
Disrupting Dominant Discourses
Feminist sport scholars have observed the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women athletes and women's sports in media with great concern (Cheryl Cooky, Michael A. Messner, and Robin Hex
Powerful Lessons' in Women's Sport
In 2013, ESPN launched a series of documentaries to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX. The Nine for IX documentaries tell stories of successful women in sport and tackle pertinent gender- and sex-related issues, promising to teach popular audiences about the untold histories of women's sport. Because of the series' place in ESPN's marketing efforts to reach women, we consider the series as ideological work through which women's sport his…
From Ladies' Days to Women's Initiatives
American entrepreneurs have, for more than a century, sought to cultivate female consumers of national pastimes, specifically horse racing, boxing, baseball, football and basketball. Because these sports have been principally and historically associated with manliness and masculinity, it is more appropriate to think in terms of women's involvement and consumption, as opposed to their athletic participation when it comes to ‘pastime' status. Marke…
Race but Not Racism
An analysis of The Jesse Owens Story (1984) and Race (2016) provides a unique opportunity to examine the portrayal of race relations in popular culture as the biopics offer two different versions of the same life lived. Whereas The Jesse Owens Story chronicles Owens’s life from birth to death, Race focuses on the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Despite being released over thirty years apart, the biopics nevertheless embrace similar tropes and reinforce par…
Manning Up
Debuting in 2013, Esquire Network's first season of White Collar Brawlers features professional-class men with workplace conflicts looking to 'settle the score in the ring.' In the show, white-collar men are portrayed as using boxing to reclaim ostensibly primal aspects of masculinity, which their professional lives do not provide, making them appear as better men and more productive constituents of a postindustrial service economy. Through this …
Revolution on the American Gridiron
Scholarship on the 1970s ‘women’s movement’ in the USA has grown in recent years. However, this area has yet to fully incorporate women’s athletic experiences. This paper brings together these two areas of scholarship through analysis of women’s experiences playing professional football in 1970s America. Women athletes articulated little connection between football and the larger feminist campaign for corporeal autonomy and equality and some pron…
Looking at Losing
On November 6, 1995, Art Modell announced his intention to relocate the National Football League's (NFL) Cleveland Browns to Baltimore following the season. After 4 months of civic activism from Cleveland's community and legal action from the city's politicians, Cleveland, the NFL and Modell agreed to a deal that allowed the long-time owner to honour his contract with Baltimore and simultaneously provided a NFL club to Cleveland to begin play in …
Money Games
Book Review| July 01 2013 Money Games: Profiting from the Convergence of Sports and Entertainment Carter, David M. Money Games: Profiting from the Convergence of Sports and Entertainment. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011. Pp. ix+304. Notes and index. $29.95 cb. Andrew D. Linden Andrew D. Linden Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2013) 40 (2): 334–335.…
Disrupting Dominant Discourses
Feminist sport scholars have observed the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women athletes and women's sports in media with great concern (Cheryl Cooky, Michael A. Messner, and Robin Hex
A Brief Taxonomy of Sports that Were Not Quite American National Pastimes
Several sports have served as American national pastimes over the course of the nation's history. Horse racing, hunting, prize fighting, baseball, football, and basketball have waxed and waned in a long series of debates over what constitutes ‘true' national pastimes. Unlike some nations that have declared national pastimes by governmental fiat, US national games emerge from organic and sometimes chaotic cultural processes. An alternative history…
From Ladies' Days to Women's Initiatives
American entrepreneurs have, for more than a century, sought to cultivate female consumers of national pastimes, specifically horse racing, boxing, baseball, football and basketball. Because these sports have been principally and historically associated with manliness and masculinity, it is more appropriate to think in terms of women's involvement and consumption, as opposed to their athletic participation when it comes to ‘pastime' status. Marke…
Revolution on the American Gridiron
Scholarship on the 1970s ‘women’s movement’ in the USA has grown in recent years. However, this area has yet to fully incorporate women’s athletic experiences. This paper brings together these two areas of scholarship through analysis of women’s experiences playing professional football in 1970s America. Women athletes articulated little connection between football and the larger feminist campaign for corporeal autonomy and equality and some pron…
Lt
Book Review| July 01 2015 LT: The Life & Times LT: The Life & Times, (2013). Dir. Peter Radovich. Prod. Steve Karasik. Showtime Sports. 108 mins. Andrew D. Linden Andrew D. Linden Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2015) 42 (2): 230–231. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.42.2.0230 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew D. Linden…
"Blue-Collar Identity and the "Culture of Losing
In November 1995, Cleveland football fans began the "Save Our Browns" campaign after owner Art Modell announced he would move the team to Baltimore after the season. By February 1996, the initiative influenced the National Football League’s decision to allow Cleveland to keep the legacy of the Browns and offer the city a new team. Letters found at the Pro Football Hall of Fame show how the Save Our Browns campaign illuminated a "culture of losing…
Getting Physical
Book Review| April 01 2015 Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America McKenzie, Shelly. Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. Pp. viii+182 with illustrations. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 cloth. Andrew D. Linden; Andrew D. Linden The Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Adam Berg Adam Berg The Pennsylvania St…
Tempering the Dichotomous Flame
In the June 2014 issue of the Journal of American History, which includes a forum titled “State of the Field: Sports in American History,” Amy Bass argues that, as many humanities-based disciplines adopted tenets of cultural history, sport history did not. Based on over a decade of debate about social, cultural, and postmodernist paradigms, Bass’s assertion illuminates continuing historiographical arguments about epistemology and theory in sport …
Writing Sport Online
Opportunities abound for scholars’ digital engagement. Among the numerous available technologies, blogging has emerged as a medium that presents both opportunities and challenges for academics. Although scholars have reflected on the values and drawbacks of blogging in academia, few have specifically analyzed academic sport blogs. This paper uses a content analysis of six sport-specific online forums to examine the composition of contributors and…
From Beach Nymph to Gridiron Amazon”
Although American football has primarily been a sport populated by boys and men, girls and women have participated for over 100 years. The media have covered these stories since the turn of the 20th century. Informed by feminist sport studies literature, this research examines media coverage of women footballers in the United States by conducting a textual analysis of over 100 articles from 1934 to 1979. Journalists who covered women encroaching …
Race but Not Racism
An analysis of The Jesse Owens Story (1984) and Race (2016) provides a unique opportunity to examine the portrayal of race relations in popular culture as the biopics offer two different versions of the same life lived. Whereas The Jesse Owens Story chronicles Owens’s life from birth to death, Race focuses on the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Despite being released over thirty years apart, the biopics nevertheless embrace similar tropes and reinforce par…
Powerful Lessons' in Women's Sport
In 2013, ESPN launched a series of documentaries to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX. The Nine for IX documentaries tell stories of successful women in sport and tackle pertinent gender- and sex-related issues, promising to teach popular audiences about the untold histories of women's sport. Because of the series' place in ESPN's marketing efforts to reach women, we consider the series as ideological work through which women's sport his…
Manning Up
Debuting in 2013, Esquire Network's first season of White Collar Brawlers features professional-class men with workplace conflicts looking to 'settle the score in the ring.' In the show, white-collar men are portrayed as using boxing to reclaim ostensibly primal aspects of masculinity, which their professional lives do not provide, making them appear as better men and more productive constituents of a postindustrial service economy. Through this …
Looking at the Past, Thinking about the Future
As the articles in this special issue have shown, the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), and the discipline of sport history more broadly, has changed in many ways over the past fifty years. Since 1974, NASSH has published the Journal of Sport History (JSH), which includes peer-reviewed, primary-sourced, and historiographical articles; book, film, and museum reviews; research notes; and forums dedicated to the history of sport and …
Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line
Dance is an integral aspect of how humans interact with the world. Historians have usually studied dance through its aesthetic meaning. In Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line, dance scholar Rachel Carrico looks beyond simply the visuals of dancers marching down the streets of the downtown wards and the French Quarter on the banks of the Mississippi River. She contends these “organized brass band processions” (1) that t…
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