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  • Chapter 15 - Singing Welshness

  • Edited by Trevor Herbert, Royal College of Music, London, Martin V. Clarke, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Helen Barlow, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    A History of Welsh Music
    Published online:
    08 September 2022
    Print publication:
    29 September 2022, pp 332-354

  • Summary

    The chapter examines the relationships between music, sport and Welsh identity. Focusing on the national rugby union and football teams, it explores the ways in which performances of ‘Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau’ by players and supporters have contributed to a cohesive sense of national identity. Examples range from its first recorded use prior to the rugby team’s famous victory over the New Zealand All Blacks in 1905 to its part in the Football Association of Wales’s efforts to galvanise supporters during the team’s successful Euro 2016 campaign. It also considers the adoption of popular hymns such as ‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah’ and ‘Calon Lân’ by supporters, investigating the extent to which affiliation to the national team takes on a spiritual quality. Drawing on the contributions of popular Welsh artists such as Max Boyce, the chapter also assesses the self-referential nature of connections between musicality and sporting pride in corporate expressions of national identity. It considers the ways in which language, religious practice and social structures encouraged and maintained a culture of massed patriotic singing, and how this has been reimagined and perpetuated in the twenty-first century through a combination of institutional support, technological developments and the influence of social media.

  • Unexceptional exceptionalism: the origins of American football in a transnational context

  • Tony Collins
  • Journal:
    Journal of Global History / Volume 8 / Issue 2 / July 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 June 2013, pp. 209-230
    Print publication:
    July 2013

  • This article explores the origins and early history of American football in relation to the development of rugby and similar codes in the English-speaking world of the last third of the nineteenth century. It suggests that the traditional narrative description of the emergence of the American game – which is ascribed in large part to the individual initiative of Walter Camp – fails to situate the sport in the context of the wider, transnational dynamics of the development of the various handling codes of football. In particular, it contends that the common assumption that the gridiron game's early development was a sporting expression of American exceptionalism is mistaken and that it only acquired its distinctive national character in the early twentieth century.

  • Differences in Medical Care Usage between Two Mass-Gathering Sporting Events

  • James O. Burton, Stephen J. Corry, Gareth Lewis, William S. Priestman
  • Journal:
    Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 27 / Issue 5 / October 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 August 2012, pp. 458-462
    Print publication:
    October 2012
  • Background

    Event planning for mass gatherings involves the utilization of methods that prospectively can predict medical resource use. However, there is growing recognition that historical data for a specific event can help to accurately forecast medical requirements. This study was designed to investigate the differences in medical usage rates between two popular mass-gathering sports events in the UK: rugby matches and horse races.

    Methods

    A retrospective study of all attendee consultations with the on-site medical teams at the Leicester Tigers Rugby Football Club and the Leicester Racecourse from September 2008 through August 2009 was undertaken. Patient demographics, medical usage rates, level of care, as well as professional input and the effects of alcohol use were recorded.

    Results

    Medical usage rates were higher at the Leicester Racecourse (P < .01), although the demographics of the patients were similar and included 24% children and 16% staff. There was no difference in level of care required between the two venues with the majority of cases being minor, although a higher proportion of casualties at the Leicester Tigers event were seen by a health care professional compared with the Leicester Racecourse (P < .001). Alcohol was a contributing factor in only 5% of consultations.

    Conclusions

    These two major sporting venues had similar attendance requirements for medical treatment that are comparable to other mass-gathering sports events. High levels of staff and pediatric presentations may have an impact on human resource planning for events on a larger scale, and the separation of treatment areas may help to minimize the number of unnecessary or opportunistic reviews by the on-site health care professionals.

    BurtonJO , CorrySJ , LewisG , PriestmanWS . Differences in Medical Care Usage between Two Mass-Gathering Sporting Events. Prehosp Disaster Med.2012;27(4):1-5.