Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Motorbikes
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Motorbikes
Motorbikes: Born to be wild. Randy McBee, Professor of Labor and Social History at the Texas Tech University, considers the rise of the American Motorcyclist from its largely working-class roots to the growth in "outlaw" motorcycle culture in the 1950s through to the development of the motorcycle rights movement of the 1960s and the emergence of the rich urban biker more recently. What impact has the 'biker' had on American culture and politics?
He's joined by Esperanza Miyake, Lecturer in Digital Media and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University, and author of a new study of the 'gendered motorcycle' in film, advertising and TV. She asks why biker culture is often seen as essentially masculine and what happens to gender at 120mph.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 4
4.5
294294 ratings
Motorbikes: Born to be wild. Randy McBee, Professor of Labor and Social History at the Texas Tech University, considers the rise of the American Motorcyclist from its largely working-class roots to the growth in "outlaw" motorcycle culture in the 1950s through to the development of the motorcycle rights movement of the 1960s and the emergence of the rich urban biker more recently. What impact has the 'biker' had on American culture and politics?
He's joined by Esperanza Miyake, Lecturer in Digital Media and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University, and author of a new study of the 'gendered motorcycle' in film, advertising and TV. She asks why biker culture is often seen as essentially masculine and what happens to gender at 120mph.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
More shows like Thinking Allowed
View all
Global News Podcast
7,837 Listeners
From Our Own Correspondent
374 Listeners
More or Less
892 Listeners
Newshour
1,071 Listeners
In Our Time
5,503 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,803 Listeners
In Our Time: History
1,879 Listeners
In Our Time: Philosophy
868 Listeners
In Our Time: Science
733 Listeners
Arts & Ideas
302 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,887 Listeners
Learning English Conversations
1,068 Listeners
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
2,122 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
1,980 Listeners
Great Lives
488 Listeners
BBC Inside Science
413 Listeners
Moral Maze
58 Listeners
The Audio Long Read
838 Listeners
Start the Week
162 Listeners
All in the Mind
64 Listeners
The Briefing Room
68 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,212 Listeners
Americast
780 Listeners
The Bomb
1,044 Listeners