The Sound of Victory

Music, Sport, and Society

Considers key socio-political moments and figures that highlight the enduring relationship between music, sound, and sport

The collisions of music and sport are so ubiquitous that they often go unnoticed as cultural phenomena. Yet the integration of sound into sport has become inseparable from the experience itself from walk-up songs and seventh-inning sing-alongs in Major League Baseball to the halftime spectacle of the Super Bowl, the “California Sound” of surfing culture, and the percussive traditions of Brazilian Capoeira.

The Sound of Victory: Music, Sport, and Society explores these intersections through close examinations of key moments, figures, spaces, and events that reveal the deep socio-cultural significance and historical reverberations of music and sport. Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners filmmakers, journalists, and cultural criticsthe v