Playing on the Periphery - Sport, Identity and Memory

Informationen zum Autor Dr Tara Brabazon is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia and Director of the Popular Culture Collective. Zusammenfassung This innovative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the export of sports from England. Analyzing differences between popular culture and sporting memory, Brabazon asks why some sports travel well and some do not. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Back to the Boot Room PART I Sport and tourism 1 We’re not really here: ‘Homes of Football’ and residents of memory 2 If Shearer plays for England, so can I: The National Football Museum and the popular cultural problem PART II Sport and history 3 They think it’s all over, but it isn’t 4 You’ve just been bounced at the WACA: Pitching a new cricketing culture PART III Sport and memory 5 Our Don and their Eddie 6 Bending memories through Beckham 7 On the Blacks’ back

Product details

• Authors: Tara Brabazon, Tara (University of Brighton Brabazon, Brabazon Tara
• Assisted by: Boria Majumdar (Editor of the series), J A Mangan (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2008
• EAN: 9780415484923
• ISBN: 978-0-415-48492-3
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure