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- catalog abstract "Although sport is pervasive in our society, its significance as a cultural phenomenon remains largely misunderstood, and its singular ability to entertain, inspire, and unite is frequently taken for granted. Sporting metaphors abound in politics and business, and communities, from neighborhoods to nations, see in sport the embodiment of their values. So what do the popularity and ubiquity of sports tell us about the world? How do sport{u2019}s stories of victory and defeat reflect the society that narrates them? This volume offers a variety of perspectives on the cultural politics of sport. Looking at such diverse examples of sport culture as aerobics, bodybuilding, Mexican pro-wrestling, golf-course design, the basketball documentary Hoop Dreams, women sportscasters, sports-related trademarks, martial arts in Tanzanian youth culture, and cricket in Sri Lanka and post-apartheid South Africa, SportCult deftly explores sport as a cultural frame of reference for such critical issues as national identity, the idea of the body, global capitalism, and the politics of representation.".
- catalog alternative "Sport cult".
- catalog contributor b11506300.
- catalog contributor b11506301.
- catalog contributor b11506302.
- catalog contributor b11506303.
- catalog contributor b11506304.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "Although sport is pervasive in our society, its significance as a cultural phenomenon remains largely misunderstood, and its singular ability to entertain, inspire, and unite is frequently taken for granted. Sporting metaphors abound in politics and business, and communities, from neighborhoods to nations, see in sport the embodiment of their values. So what do the popularity and ubiquity of sports tell us about the world? How do sport{u2019}s stories of victory and defeat reflect the society that narrates them? This volume offers a variety of perspectives on the cultural politics of sport.".
- catalog description "Fielding sport : a preface to politics? / Randy Martin and Toby Miller -- Competing allegories / Toby Miller -- Kung Fu cinema, frugality, and Tanzanian Asian youth culture : Ujamaa and Tanzanian youth in the seventies / May Joseph -- Nation in white : cricket in a postapartheid South Africa / Grant Farred -- Batting against the break : on cricket, nationalism, and the swashbuckling Sri Lankans / Qadri Ismail -- Composite body : hip-hop aerobics and the multicultural nation / Randy Martin -- Aerobics and feminism : self-determination or patriarchal hegemony? / Michael Real -- Building a better body : male bodybuilding, spectacle, and consumption / Jon Stratton -- On Mexican pro wrestling : sport as melodrama / Heather Levi -- Field of soaps : Rupert v. Kerry as masculine melodrama / David Rowe and Jim McKay -- Cultural links : an international political economy of golf course landscapes / Bradley S. Klein -- Talking trash : late capitalism, black (re)productivity, and professional basketball / Gitanjali Maharaj -- Head fake : mentorship and mobility in hoop dreams / Bruce Robbins -- Back-page bylines : newspapers, women, and sport : an interview with Liz Kahn, Mary Jollimore, and Wanda Jamrozik / Amanda Smith -- Sports trademarks and somatic politics : locating the law in a critical cultural studies / Rosemary J. Coombe.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Looking at such diverse examples of sport culture as aerobics, bodybuilding, Mexican pro-wrestling, golf-course design, the basketball documentary Hoop Dreams, women sportscasters, sports-related trademarks, martial arts in Tanzanian youth culture, and cricket in Sri Lanka and post-apartheid South Africa, SportCult deftly explores sport as a cultural frame of reference for such critical issues as national identity, the idea of the body, global capitalism, and the politics of representation.".
- catalog extent "vii, 294 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0816631832 (hardcover)".
- catalog identifier "0816631840 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 16.".
- catalog isPartOf "Cultural politics ; v. 16".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog subject "306.4/83 21".
- catalog subject "GV706.5 .S73896 1999".
- catalog subject "Sports Anthropological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Sports Economic aspects.".
- catalog subject "Sports Political aspects.".
- catalog subject "Sports Social aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Fielding sport : a preface to politics? / Randy Martin and Toby Miller -- Competing allegories / Toby Miller -- Kung Fu cinema, frugality, and Tanzanian Asian youth culture : Ujamaa and Tanzanian youth in the seventies / May Joseph -- Nation in white : cricket in a postapartheid South Africa / Grant Farred -- Batting against the break : on cricket, nationalism, and the swashbuckling Sri Lankans / Qadri Ismail -- Composite body : hip-hop aerobics and the multicultural nation / Randy Martin -- Aerobics and feminism : self-determination or patriarchal hegemony? / Michael Real -- Building a better body : male bodybuilding, spectacle, and consumption / Jon Stratton -- On Mexican pro wrestling : sport as melodrama / Heather Levi -- Field of soaps : Rupert v. Kerry as masculine melodrama / David Rowe and Jim McKay -- Cultural links : an international political economy of golf course landscapes / Bradley S. Klein -- Talking trash : late capitalism, black (re)productivity, and professional basketball / Gitanjali Maharaj -- Head fake : mentorship and mobility in hoop dreams / Bruce Robbins -- Back-page bylines : newspapers, women, and sport : an interview with Liz Kahn, Mary Jollimore, and Wanda Jamrozik / Amanda Smith -- Sports trademarks and somatic politics : locating the law in a critical cultural studies / Rosemary J. Coombe.".
- catalog title "Sport cult".
- catalog title "SportCult / Randy Martin, Toby Miller, editors.".
- catalog type "text".