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Sports Spectators
In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now, in his latest book, the accomplished historian of sport turns his attention from the playing field to the grandstand.Sports Spectators,the first historical study of the subject from antiquity to today, is at once erudite and entertaining; comprehensive and succint.
Guttmann first examines the history of sports spectators, starting with Ancient Greece and Rome. He then moves on to the Renaissance and traces three early sports -the tournament, archery, and early versions of football. The author then focuses on the emergenece of sports in post-Renaissance England, and discusses the curious spectacle of animal sports (bear- and bull-baiting and cockfighting), as well as the first appearance of combat sports such as sword fighting, stick fighting, and boxing. The book concludes its historical view by exploring contemporary baseball, football, rowing, tennis, and golf.
From his chronological narrative, Guttmann shifts to detailed analysis of the economic, sociological, and psychological aspects of sports spectatorship. Who were, and are, sports spectators? What is their gender and social class? Have they normally been participants as well as fans? What are the political functions of sports-watching? What are the social dynamics of spectatorship?
Guttmann provides fresh insights which will be useful to scholars and fascinating to everyone.Sports Spectatorsalso looks at the dramatic transformations radio and television have made, and offers an incisive critique of today's sports-related violence, including the increasingly frequent incidences of spectator hooliganism. How violent (or peaceful) have spectators traditionally been? Has spectator violence increased or decreased?
You needn't be a season ticket-holder to enjoySports Spectators.Allen Guttmann makes the history of fandom come alive for any reader interested in Western culture and what forms of entertainment reveal about us, as well as those concerned with the recent growth of spectator violence.
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The Progressive Era Appropriation of Children's Play
[...] Marxist critics saw these reforms as \"regimentation\" of children to \"the iron cage of military and industrial disciplines,\"2 but Progressive proponents of adult-sponsored children's play candidly acknowledged a desire to curb-quite literally-unruly immigrant children running wild amid the pushcarts and vendors' stands of crowded city streets. Like the PGA, which was consciously intended as a reformist institution designed to alter the values and behavior of the children involved, Pop Warner Football and Little League Baseball were meant to inculcate the twin virtues of cooperation and competition that were presumed to be characteristic of properly socialized American boys.
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Sport, Politics and the Engaged Historian
Historiography on the intersection of sport and politics is a vast field within which six major areas can be identified. 1. German, Italian and - to a lesser extent - Japanese historians have written extensively about the role of sports under fascist regimes. 2. There have also been numerous efforts to analyse the role of sport in communist societies (as well as considerable attention to 'workers' sports' in the 1920s and 1930s). 3. Many historians have dealt with sport and the politics of race and ethnicity (especially, but not exclusively, in South Africa, the USA, Australia and Ireland). 4. European and American historians have also written extensively and with considerable passion about the politics of gender discrimination. 5. The Olympic Games, which their founder intended to be a political force, have been a fifth focus of historical scrutiny. 6. A small but prolific group of French and German neo-Marxist historians and sociologists have argued that modern sports are a mirror image of capitalist institutions and are, therefore, inherently repressive. These are all areas of intense and intensive historical attention.
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