| Sport and Memory in North America Contributor(s): Wieting, Steven (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0714682055 ISBN-13: 9780714682051 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball and football, figure skating and gymnastics, Canadian hockey and track and field, for example - show the potency of sport's "cultural work." The book captures uplifting images which are stressed in the public performance and national and international broadcasting of sport, but also notes the omissions and distortions of social reality that persist in sport performance and mass marketing in North America. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.483 |
| LCCN: 2001028808 |
| Series: Sport in the Global Society |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.04" W x 8.5" (0.83 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball and football, figure skating and gymnastics, Canadian hockey and track and field, for example - show the potency of sport's "cultural work". The book captures uplifting images which are stressed in the public performance and national and international broadcasting of sport, but also notes the omissions and distortions of social reality that persist in sport performance and mass marketing in North America. |