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Why do sports fans chant?
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Why do sports fans chant? Is it just to support their team or is there more to it than that? (Spoiler alert: there is more to it than that.)
Join me, Ian Forth, in a spirited discussion which will take in the Chip Butty Song, organic living folk traditions, secular rituals, the Maori hakka, Sufi whirling dervishes, the Covid effect, Pat Nevin, various professors, Posh Spice and the origin of language.
Then, finally answer the question - Why do sports fans chant?
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Chapters
1. Why do sports fans chant? (00:00:00)
2. Introduction (00:01:24)
3. The Medium-Sized Dive (00:01:49)
4. Chanting and community identity (00:03:59)
5. Chanting and theatrical identity (00:07:25)
6. Chanting as a marker of the individual tribe (00:07:55)
7. Completing the sonic contribution to the visual spectacle (00:08:55)
8. Chanting and the effect on players (00:11:21)
9. Lowering of personal autonomy (00:12:27)
10. Chanting and protesting (00:14:33)
11. Chanting and pre-literate culture (00:16:12)
12. Conclusions (00:17:19)
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