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Understanding Sports Culture (Understanding Contemporary Culture series)

By Tony Schirato

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
2007
ISBN
141290739X, 1412907381, 9781412907385, 9781848607460
Open Library ID
OL22764169M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
683 kB (698947 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
161\161
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Understanding Sport Culture traces and analyzes the development of the modern field of sport from its ancient and medieval precursors (the festivals of Greece and Rome, and games such as folk football), through to its inception in the mid-nineteenth century as a set of activities designed to instill character and discipline in students in exclusive British public schools, up to its transformation into a global institution and popular spectacle. The narrative also focuses on and provides a detailed account of the gradual coming together of sport and the media. It explains how this relationship has accentuated sport's status as one of the most important sites in contemporary culture, while simultaneously threatening its existence.

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