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Summary

Reversing Field invites students, professionals, and enthusiasts of sport – whether law, management and marketing, or the game itself – to explore the legal issues and regulations surrounding collegiate and professional athletics in the United States. This theoretical and methodological interrogation of sports law openly addresses race, labor, gender, and the commercialization of sports, while offering solutions to the disruptions that threaten its very foundation during an era of increased media scrutiny and consumerism. In over thirty chapters, academics, practitioners, and critics vigorously confront and debate matters such as the Arms Race, gender bias, racism, the Rooney Rule, and steroid use, offering new thought and resolution to the vexing legal issues that confront sports in the 21^st century.

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Contents

• Foreword, John Carlos
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction, Stacey B. Evans
• The Interconnectivity of Sports to Commercialization, Labor, and Race, John W. Fisher II
• Part I: Commercialization: The Recruiting and Selling of the Modern Athlete
  • Overview, andré douglas pond cummings
  • More Lightning and Less Thunder: The Challenge for NCAA Athletics, Bernard Franklin
  • The Value and Perils of Intercollegiate Athletics: A Presidential Perspective, David C. Hardesty, Jr.
  • Exploring the Commercialized Arms Race Metaphor, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
  • Describing Racism as Asymmetrical Market Imperfections, or How to Determine Whether the NBA Dress Code is Racist, Andre L. Smith
  • Athletes as Television Celebrities: Why We Watch; How They Benefit; Must They Be Responsible?, Sherri Burr
• Part II: Labor: How the Athlete Changes the Economic Playing Field
  • Overview, Anne Marie Lofaso
  • A. Balls or Strikes: Are Economic Weapons Finding the Zone?
    • Introduction, Jeffrey M. Hirsch
    • The 1994–’95 Baseball Strike and National Labor Relations Board: To the Precipice and Back Again, William B. Gould IV
    • 1994 Baseball Players’ Strike: A Case Study in Labor’s Use of its Most Effective Economic Weapon, Dennis P. Walsh
    • The State of Sports Law and Policy: Views from a Labor Law Professor, William B. Gould IV
  • B. False/Positives: Debating the Merits of Drug Testing
    • Introduction, Anne Marie Lofaso
    • The Temptation of Performance-Enhancing Drugs, andré douglas pond cummings
    • Performance-Enhancing Drugs and How They Affect Today’s Athlete: Views from a Medical, Doctor Julian Bailes
    • From Barry Bonds to USADA: Protecting the Interests of “Drug-Free” Athletes, Timothy Davis
    • Challenging the Premise of Steroid Testing in Sports, Wm. David Cornwell, Sr.
• Part III: Finding Equal Footing: Gender Issues in Sports
  • Overview: Progress Riddled with Disappointment, Anne Marie Lofaso
  • The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX, Deborah L. Brake
  • Title IX Backlash and Intercollegiate Athletics, Barbara Osborne
  • Reflections of a Former Athlete as a Young Woman: Growing Up Under Title IX, Anne Marie Lofaso
  • Girls Can Play, Too: Has the Lack of Female Leadership in NCAA Athletics Become an Afterthought?, Bethany Swaton
• Part IV: Race Issues in Sports
  • Overview: A Troubling History but a Bright Future, andré douglas pond cummings
  • Race in Sports: The Continuing Dilemma, Leonard J. Elmore
  • A. Racing From the Past: Exposing Racism in Today’s Collegiate Athletics
    • Introduction, andré douglas pond cummings
    • The Legacy of Brown: Commodification of the African American Student-Athlete?, Dana D. Brooks and Ronald Althouse
    • Using Social Psychology to Evaluate Race and Law in Sports, Michael A. McCann
    • From the Inside Looking Out: Racism in Men’s Collegiate Coaching, Marlon LeBlanc
    • Progress Realized? The Continuing American Indian Mascot Quandary, andré douglas pond cummings
  • B. Professional Equality: The Rooney Rule
    • Introduction, Todd J. Clark
    • Minorities Are Separate and Unequal: A Look at the Minority Hiring Practices in Collegiate and Professional Athletics, Floyd Keith
    • The Changing Landscape of African Americans in Sports, Kenneth L. Shropshire
    • The Critical Role of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, Cyrus Mehri
    • The Fritz Pollard Alliance, the Rooney Rule, and the Quest to “Level the Playing Field” in the National Football League, N. Jeremi Duru
    • Pushing Weight, andré douglas pond cummings

Author

andré douglas pond cummings is Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law. cummings holds a JD from Howard University School of Law.

Anne Marie Lofaso is Associate Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law. She holds a JD from University of Pennsylvania Law School, an AB from Harvard University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

With a foreword by Dr. John Carlos

Contributors: Ronald Althouse, Dr. Julian Bailes, Deborah Brake, Dana D. Brooks, Sherri Burr, John Carlos, Todd J. Clark, John Carlos, David Cornwell, andré douglas pond cummings, Timothy Davis, N. Jeremi Duru, Leonard J. Elmore, Stacey B. Evans, John Fisher, Bernard Franklin, William B. Gould IV, David C. Hardesty Jr., Jeffrey Hirsch, Floyd Keith, Marlon LeBlanc, Anne Marie Lofaso, Alfred Mathewson, Michael McCann, Cyrus Mehri, Barbara Osborne, Andre L. Smith, Bethany Swaton, Kenneth Shropshire, Dennis Walsh.

Reviews

“[This book] is a welcomed reservoir of information for reference by scholars, students, practitioners, jurists, and others in the field of sports law.”
James McCurdy, Gonzaga University School of Law

“Outstanding . . . . [will] contribute to the debate considerably.”
Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Florida Coastal School of Law

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Summary

Combining classical chamber music with traditional folk elements, Wondrous Love features the original compositions of John Beall. During his career as a professional composer, Dr. Beall has drawn increasingly from the folk tunes, hymn tunes, fiddle melodies, and even visual settings of Appalachia. Inspiration for the music ranges from gospel music to the majestic mountain Spruce Knob, portrayed in Beall's second symphony. The pieces, performed by ensembles ranging from two to six in number, all draw upon Appalachian folksongs or southern hymn tunes as melodic material. Among the hymns represented are "Trust and Obey" and the beloved "Amazing Grace", as well as selections from the 1815 hymnbook Kentucky Harmony, and the Southern Harmony hymnbook from 1835.

Tracklist

Disk One
1. Wondrous Love: Variations for Viola and Piano
2. Urgently
3. The River: Adagio
4. March tempo
5. Driving, Anguished
6. Quickly, Lightly
7. Slowly, Brooding
8. Fast and Rhythmic
9. Majestically: Allegro Tracklist
Disk Two
1.  Fast And Vigorous
2.  Variations on a Gospel Tune
3.  Breakers, for Flute and Piano
4.  Like a Whirlwind
5.  Foundation: Andante Cantabile    
6.  Moderately fast

Author

John Beall studied composition at Baylor University with Charles Eakin and Richard Willis, and completed doctoral study at the Eastman School of Music, where he was a student of Samuel Adler. In 1972 he received the Louis Lane Prize for his orchestral work, Lament for Those Lost in the War, and in 1973, the Howard Hanson Prize for his Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra. Since 1978, Dr. Beall has been Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at West Virginia University. Summers since 1992 have been spent teaching at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. The composer's original syntheses of classical forms with the more familiar folk elements are included in this double CD set. The booklet accompanying these CDs offers notes by Penn State professor of piano Steven H. Smith, who dicusses concert notes and analyses of compositions.

Summary

Coal Digging Blues: Songs of West Virginia Miners, compiled by Mark Allan Jackson, is the eighth addition to the WVU Press Sound Archive series. Drawing upon gospels, blues, and country musical influences, the musicians on this compilation explicate the hardships and hopes of Great Depression-era West Virginia coal miners. The songs and stories on the CD were collected by folklorist George Korson when he traveled to mining communities in northern and eastern West Virginia in the 1940s. Some of the songs from Korson's visit were released by the Library of Congress under the title Songs and Ballads of the Bituminous Miners, but the majority of them are being released to the public for the first time here on Coal Digging Blues. Many of the songs are performed by African-American miners, a marginalized group in the history of mining who bring to the collection their rich musical heritage and sui generis sound. A booklet of detailed notes on the performers, their songs, and the history of coal-camp songs in West Virginia, as well as contemporary photographs, is included with the CD.

Tracklist

  1. Drill Man Blues by George Curley Sizemore
  2. Going Democratic by George Curley Sizemore
  3. The Snitcher by George Curley Sizemore
  4. Bill Green Better Run On by The United Four Quartet
  5. I Can Tell the World What the Union Has Done by The United Four Quartet
  6. I Dont Want to Go Down Yonder by The United Four Quartet
  7. Coal Digging Blues by Jerrel Stanley
  8. The Brave and Trembling Motor Man by Jerrel Stanley
  9. A Little Lump of Coal by Orville O.J. Jenks
10. Its On in Washington by Orville O.J. Jenks
11. John L. Lewis Blues by Orville O.J. Jenks
12. Union Blues by Orville O.J. Jenks
13. How Beautiful Union Must Be by Orville O.J. Jenks
14. The Union Coal Mines in the Sky by Orville O.J.

Author

Mark Allan Jackson is Associate Professor of Folklore and English at Middle Tennessee State University who specializes in political expression in American music.  He has published essays, reviews, and commentaries in such journals as American Music, The Journal of American History, Popular Music and Society, The Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Folklore Research, and The Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin. 

Reviews

"This is the story of a country being formed, of a history being made."
Mike Jurkovic, Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange