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Understanding Sports Culture.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : SAGE Publications, Limited, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (122 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781848607460
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.483
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Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Playing Sport -- 2 Theories of Play, Games and Sport -- 3 Intimations of Sport -- 4 The Field of Sport -- 5 Global Sport -- 6 Sport, the Media and Spectatorship -- 7 From Sport to Spectacle -- 8 Contemporary Sport -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Playing Sport -- 2 Theories of Play, Games and Sport -- 3 Intimations of Sport -- 4 The Field of Sport -- 5 Global Sport -- 6 Sport, the Media and Spectatorship -- 7 From Sport to Spectacle -- 8 Contemporary Sport -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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