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Hoops
- A Cultural History of Basketball in America
Af: Thomas Aiello
Engelsk Hardback
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Hoops
- A Cultural History of Basketball in America
Af: Thomas Aiello
Engelsk Hardback
Hardback
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From its early days as a sport to build “muscular Christianity” among young men flooding nineteenth-century cities to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. It grew through high school gymnasiums, college pep rallies, and the fits and starts of professionalization. It was a playground game, an urban game, tied to all of the caricatures that were associated with urban culture. It struggled with integration and representations of race. Today, basketball’s influence seeps into film, music, dance, and fashion. Hoops tells the story of the reciprocal relationship between the sport and the society that received it. While many books have celebrated specific aspects of the game, Thomas Aiello presents the only contemporary cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional mens and womens competition. He argues that the game has existed in a reciprocal relationship with the broader culture, both embodying conflicts over race, class, and gender and serving a s public theater for them. Aiello places cultural icons like Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant in the context of their times and explores how the sport negotiated controversies and scandals. Hoops belongs on the bookshelf of every reader interested in the history of basketball, sports, race, urban life, and pop culture in America.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9781538147115
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1538147114
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
25 feb 2022
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato:
25 feb 2022
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