- Steve Redhead
Steve Redhead is
Professor of Sport and Media Cultures at theUniversity of Brighton . While his recent scholarship has focused onPaul Virilio and theories of accelerated modernity, he is known for his research on post-youth culture, law, and popular culture and football fanzines.He holds a LLM from Manchester University and a PhD from the University of Warwick. Combining law and cultural studies, his scholarship has focused on theories of deviance in both football fandom and dance cultures, along with current interests in speed, terrorism, football memoirs, war and theories of social change.
Redhead is known for a series of scholarly innovations, in theories of deviance, (post) youth culture and accelerated modernity.
While currently working in
Brighton , most of his career was spent atManchester Metropolitan University where he was Co-Director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture with Derek Wynne. He also was the head of the Creative Industries Taskforce for the Geoff Gallop Government inWestern Australia . He is married toTara Brabazon , Professor of Media Studies, at the University of Brighton. They live in Eastbourne.A well-known media commentator, he recently appeared on the BBC4 programme, Dance Britannia.
His best known books include "Rave Off", "End of the Century Party", "Repetitive Beat Generation" and "Sing When You're Winning". His book on
Jean Baudrillard , The "Jean Baudrillard Reader", was published simultaneously by both Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press in 2008. Edinburgh University Press published "The Paul Virilio Reader" and "Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture" in 2004.External links
* [http://www.steveredhead.com/ Steve Redhead.com] — Official Steve Redhead web site
* http://www.surf.salford.ac.uk/documents/UrbanVulnerability/Redhead.pdf
* http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/issues/miacp112.html
* http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/edition_details.aspx?id=12851
* http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/edition_details.aspx?id=11594
* http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/edition_details.aspx?id=11476
* http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231134827.HTM
* http://www.canongate.net/SteveRedhead
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