Sport and Memory in North America

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Series:
Sport in the Global Society
Author:
Stephen G. Wieting
ISBN:
9781135284060
Related ISBNs:
9781315039015, 9780714682051, 9780714682051, 9780714652191, 9780714652191, 9780714652191, 9780714682051, 9781315039015
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
280
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-06-06
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2002
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Sports