This book examines the many, varied historical entanglements between pop cultures and ecstatic, euphoric, and intoxicated bodies, focusing on the period between the 1950s and the 1980s. Charting a new course by bringing together pop culture studies, the history of bodies, and the history of emotions, the volume unites new historical perspectives on different forms of corporeal pleasure and offers novel methods for studying the social and cultural politics of ecstasy.

Chapter "The “love thugs”: Ecstasy, Homosociality, and the Decline of Foot-ball-related Violence in 1990s England" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Kristoff Kerl is an independent scholar based in Cologne, Germany.

Detlef Siegfried is Professor of Modern German and European History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Robert P. Stephens is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.

Olaf Stieglitz is Professor for American Cultural History at the University of Leipzig, Germany.