Screen Shot 2019-09-14 at 3.48.53 PM — Screengrab of Sports Music playlist on YouTube.

Sports Music

Compiled by Brett Kashmere and Astria Suparak
for INCITE Journal: Sports and A NON-ZERO-SUM GAME
2018
bit.ly/sportsnoveltymusic

Description
Publications
Presentations

A selection of official and adopted team theme songs, rapping by professional athletes, music made for sports films, and sports-themed pop songs from the past six decades. Musical styles range from choral groups with orchestras, rousing anthems, and advertising jingles, to disco, soul, rock, hip hop, pop, and R&B.

Composers, musicians, and singers include:
Alan Parsons Project, Kurtis Blow, Cheech and Chong, Ice Cube, Drumma Boy, Percy Faith, Wiz Khalifa, and athletes and teams Ron Artest, Chicago Bears, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, Shaquille O’Neal, L.A. Raiders, and L.A. Rams.

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PUBLICATIONS

ONLINE: Listen to the Sports Music Playlist on YouTube
PRINT: Demand Utopian Sports (Oakland, California: Wolfman Books, 2018). With contributions by Sarah Hotchkiss, Anelise Chen, Unity Skateboarding, Grace Rosario Perkins, Heavy Breathing, INCITE Journal: Sports, and more.

Available at:

(Last updated: 2019)

Printed Matter (New York, NY)
Wolfman Books (Oakland, CA)

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PRESENTATIONS

Utopian Sports curated by Justin Carder at Public Square, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, June 2018)
Winningest exhibition reception, 18th Street Arts Center (Santa Monica, CA, July 17, 2018)

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