Music frustrates. Sometimes coaches use different types of music to intimate the other team. Coaches practice music across the Pac-12. They tend to have the players ready for upcoming games. “The business of music at a football practice is tricky. At times, it needs to inspire. Other times, it needs to pester and frustrate. And still, at others, it just needs to sink into the background, a low hum amidst tackles and touchdowns.” Jennings (2014). There are different genres being played on the Pac-12. It is just like a non-stopped radio. Of course the music supposed to be a clean version in order to play in the stadiums. USC, recruiting coordinator Alex Rios states “I try to tailor that day’s songs to the theme of practice,” Rios said. “For example, if we are focusing on up-tempo in practice, I build a playlist of up-tempo songs, or if we are going to play at a stadium that has loud fans, I try to play songs that stadium uses to pump up its fans.” Jennings …show more content…
The band perform at half time. The team have warm up music before the game and at half time. Music and sports connect with each other in many 3 ways. They connect in marketing, aesthetics, and performance strategies. As well as music and gender role plays a big part at football games. McLeod asserts that the relationship between sports and music is a way many societies “construct gender and racial identity.” The role of pop music in sports, and vice versa, subconsciously assists in the creation of masculine and feminine roles in our society as well as separate and tie racial identities. Hip-Hop—Basketball—Black; Country—Nascar—White; Cheerleading—Football—Feminine. French (2010). This all imitates a bigger picture of one’s