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Book SynopsisTrade Review"For a book like this to come forth at this particular juncture, with its focus on community sport and the experiences of primarily queer and trans women, is not only necessary but imperative." William Bridel, University of Calgary

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Book SynopsisA former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, he composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes and the transcendent experience of the game.Trade ReviewThis timely and groundbreaking book is about basketball as lived religion in some of America's most dangerous neighborhoods. But more centrally it is about grief expressed and hope conjured as seen through the lens of a stellar young scholar who has been there and through the eyes of young black men who, though weighed down by the forces of death, somehow rise above the asphalt. -- Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)In this season where black male bodies are under attack, Black Gods of the Asphalt offers a profound narrative of survival, self-determination, and the urban swag of Boston's inner-city basketball courts as sites where religion is 'lived' and spiritual transformation occurs on a regular basis. Woodbine brilliantly posits that the 'ritual space of the asphalt' is where memory, hope, and healing converge to fight the systemic oppressive forces beyond the rim. This book is a slam dunk! -- Emmett G. Price III, editor of The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture: Toward Bridging the Generational DivideThe stories in Black Gods of the Asphalt are rich and powerful and are woven together skillfully and beautifully. Onaje X. 0. Woodbine switches between his roles as participant and observer, by turns narrating and analyzing with great dexterity. -- Rebecca Alpert, author of Religion and SportsThis narrative is more than academic prose; it is a deeply personal and poetic travel through the author's own story of racial struggle and the survival tactics of the players he befriends.... In this majestic study of basketball as ritual, religion, and culture, Woodbine plunges into the courts of Boston with an insider's savvy to catalogue the urban sport's pulsating (and potentially transcendent) dialogue. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Woodbine's got game, on the court and on the page, and here he dunks emphatically. From the time we meet Shorty, a street-basketball legend, through a brief history of the game and its link (religion playing a large role) to young African American culture, we learn of basketball, and the many lives it memorializes, as we have in few other books. * Booklist *In this painful, beautiful nonfiction debut, scholar Onaje X. O. Woodbine uses a seamless mix of memoir, ethnography, and poetry to chronicle Boston's street basketball players seeking physical and spiritual grace through hoops. * Boston Magazine *In Black Gods of the Asphalt, the worlds of religion and hoops come together.... Woodbine shares how the courts can be a place of healing, of ritual, of community, and even transcendence. -- Christie Storm * Arkansas Democrat Gazette *Black Gods of the Asphalt is likely to change your entire perspective of urban basketball. -- David Crumm * Read The Spirit *For the young men in Woodbine's book, street basketball disconnects players from daily life in a way that gives them joy.... But, at the same time, inner city life literally enshrouds their game, and this tragedy is what Black Gods brings to life in vividly realized accounts of young men and the street ball tournaments they play. -- David Lipset * Eephus *A powerful and deeply moving work, Black Gods of the Asphalt reveals a world of redemption and hope rarely glimpsed from the outside. -- Diana L. Hayes * National Catholic Reporter *A thoughtful, passionate, and personal exploration. * The Boston Globe (Best Books of 2016) *A uniquely engaging and rewarding read for sociologists. -- Douglas Hartmann * Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations"Enter the Chamber"AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Memory1. "Last Ones Left" in the Game: From Black Resistance to Urban Exile2. Boston's Memorial GamesPart II: Hope3. Jason, Hoops, and Grandma's Hands4. C.J., Hoops, and the Quest for a Second LifePart III: Healing5. Ancestor Work in Street Basketball6. The Dunk and the Signifying MonkeyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports.Trade ReviewCo-winner, North American Society for Sport History Book Award, Anthology, 2014. "This collection points to some of the ways to rewrite sport's meanings and shows how and why doing so matters, academically, emotionally, and as part of the politics of the everyday beyond the commodified, commercialized and financial worlds of late capitalist sport-as-culture-industry."--Sport in History "This fine anthology shows the confluence of sport, identity, and community in a variety of settings. Outstanding essays by skilled writers."--Ronald A. Smith, author of Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform"These accessible, illustrative essays—written by scholars of sport studies, American studies, and history—are stories about teams and times, voice and victories, pride and privilege. In sum, the book emphasizes the functional aspects of sports—the fact that through sports people feel connected to one another. Recommended."--Choice"The book offers unexpected insight into how sports communities are used to shore up a mythologized American past."--Journal of Sport HistoryTable of ContentsContributors: Amy Bass, Susan Cahn, Mark Dyreson, Michael Ezra, Elliott J. Gorn, Christopher Lamberti, Allison Lauterbach, Catherine M. Lewis, Shelley Lucas, Daniel A. Nathan, Michael Oriard, Carlo Rotella, Jaime Schultz, Mike Tanier, David K. Wiggins, and David W. Zang.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A superb cultural history."--Publisher's Weekly"Jesse Berrett's Pigskin Nation is an insightful account of how professional football intersected with politics between 1966 and 1974, and how the sport "became both a metaphor for American achievement and an effective means of reaching voters."" --Journal of American History"The book is extensively researched throughout, and Berrett includes copious notes, which will prove helpful for sports historians and general readers alike. Recommended." --Choice"Accessible, well-researched, and insightful, Pigskin Nation is a compelling book." --Journal of Sport History"Pigskin Nation makes an important contribution and should find a welcome home in sport history courses and among general readers interested in how pro football became a commonplace part of political culture." --Sport History Review"Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics offers much to chroniclers of the relationship between popular culture and politics. . . . In its all-encompassing depiction of the decades-long relationship between American football and American politics that can, in turn, provide a more productive way to consider the political realities and ramifications of football in the twenty-first century." --Journal of American Culture"The current collision of football and politics boils out of a half-century of violence, skullduggery, idealism, and greed brilliantly exposed in this fascinating and fast-paced scrimmage of a book."--Robert Lipsyte, author of SportsWorld: An American Dreamland"With an acute eye for detail, especially notable in the brilliant analysis of NFL films, Jesse Berrett shows how pro football and Richard Nixon's America arose coterminously and in reinforcing ways. One of the best books I have read on the politics and culture of sports in the modern United States. This terrific study shows how football both reflected and transformed American politics and culture during the long 1960s."--Larry Glickman, author of Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America "This is a terrific book—smart, lively, and deeply researched, full of surprises to delight the casual fan and the seasoned historian alike. If you want to know how a not-quite-respectable sport of the 1950s within two decades became 'America's Game,' not just the country’s most popular sport but also the one most entangled in partisan politics and competing visions of American life, this book is for you."--Michael Oriard, author of Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport "For this devotee of Sam Huff's New York Giants and Dave Meggyesy's Syracuse Orangemen, Jesse Berrett's fascinating book is an absolute pleasure to read. Moving with the tempo of a two-minute drill, the narrative will inform both gridiron fans and political scholars alike. How many knew, for instance, that during the Vietnam War that the best way to avoid fighting the NLF was to play in the NFL? Masterfully researched, brimming with well-mined quotes, and leavened with astute analysis, the book makes the difficult job of good writing appear effortless. Anybody wanting to know how football got so big, and politics got so mean, needs to pick up Pigskin Nation."--Thomas M. Grace, author of Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOutstanding Book Award, Communication and Sport Division of the National Communication Association, 2019 Best Book Award, American Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2019 ". . . thoughtful, well-researched analysis. . . . This book makes an important contribution to communication scholarship." --Journal of Communication"An exciting project that promises to impact understandings of Native American mascots in powerful ways. Mascot Nation provides fresh perspectives on the use of American Indian imagery in sport. Rather than restate existing arguments in the ongoing controversy, Billings and Black weave together established understandings and new empirical research to clarify not simply what mascots mean but also how they matter in sport and society. Of particular note, they craft a well-rounded and fully grounded account by engaging with people and perspectives from all sides of the controversy. Mascot Nation will become essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the study and struggle over Native American mascots. It will soon come to be seen as an exemplar for the study of sport communications."--C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand"Valuable . . . Examine[s] all sides of the issue with an objective eye."--Booklist"Mascot Nation is a welcome addition to the literature on the Native American mascot controversy. Well researched and clearly written, this account offers a novel, interdisciplinary, multidimensional approach. Recommended." --Choice"Mascot Nation fills a gap by casting a wide net and offering conclusions backed by the diverse cast of disciplines that are engaged in mascot research." --H-Net Reviews"In Mascot Nation, Andrew Billings and Jason Black have taken on an enduring controversy in the study of sport and culture. Their savvy multi-method study illuminates how embedded representations of Native American mascots have built historical affinities that fans have for sports teams and highlights the important role that media has played in constructing and celebrating problematic understandings of Native Americans and their traditions. Through careful deconstruction of the central tendencies in case studies of media practices and the debates around them, this is a seminal study that will challenge sports fans to reconsider the harms in the legacies that have naturalized misunderstandings of Native American cultures."--Lawrence Wenner, editor-in-chief, Communication & Sport

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Book SynopsisCast as the ultimate hardhats, football players of the 1960s seemed to personify a crewcut traditional manhood that channeled the Puritan work ethic. Yet, despite a social upheaval against such virtues, the National Football League won over all of Americaand became a cultural force that recast politics in its own smashmouth image. Jesse Berrett explores pro football''s new place in the zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s. The NFL''s brilliant harnessing of the sports-media complex, combined with a nimble curation of its official line, brought different visions of the same game to both Main Street and the ivory tower. Politicians, meanwhile, spouted gridiron jargon as their handlers co-opted the NFL''s gift for spectacle and mythmaking to shape a potent new politics that in essence became pro football. Governing, entertainment, news, elections, celebrity--all put aside old loyalties to pursue the mass audience captured by the NFL''s alchemy of presentation, television, and high-steppiTrade Review"A superb cultural history."--Publisher's Weekly"Jesse Berrett's Pigskin Nation is an insightful account of how professional football intersected with politics between 1966 and 1974, and how the sport "became both a metaphor for American achievement and an effective means of reaching voters."" --Journal of American History"The book is extensively researched throughout, and Berrett includes copious notes, which will prove helpful for sports historians and general readers alike. Recommended." --Choice"Accessible, well-researched, and insightful, Pigskin Nation is a compelling book." --Journal of Sport History"Pigskin Nation makes an important contribution and should find a welcome home in sport history courses and among general readers interested in how pro football became a commonplace part of political culture." --Sport History Review"Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics offers much to chroniclers of the relationship between popular culture and politics. . . . In its all-encompassing depiction of the decades-long relationship between American football and American politics that can, in turn, provide a more productive way to consider the political realities and ramifications of football in the twenty-first century." --Journal of American Culture"The current collision of football and politics boils out of a half-century of violence, skullduggery, idealism, and greed brilliantly exposed in this fascinating and fast-paced scrimmage of a book."--Robert Lipsyte, author of SportsWorld: An American Dreamland"With an acute eye for detail, especially notable in the brilliant analysis of NFL films, Jesse Berrett shows how pro football and Richard Nixon's America arose coterminously and in reinforcing ways. One of the best books I have read on the politics and culture of sports in the modern United States. This terrific study shows how football both reflected and transformed American politics and culture during the long 1960s."--Larry Glickman, author of Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America "This is a terrific book—smart, lively, and deeply researched, full of surprises to delight the casual fan and the seasoned historian alike. If you want to know how a not-quite-respectable sport of the 1950s within two decades became 'America's Game,' not just the country’s most popular sport but also the one most entangled in partisan politics and competing visions of American life, this book is for you."--Michael Oriard, author of Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport "For this devotee of Sam Huff's New York Giants and Dave Meggyesy's Syracuse Orangemen, Jesse Berrett's fascinating book is an absolute pleasure to read. Moving with the tempo of a two-minute drill, the narrative will inform both gridiron fans and political scholars alike. How many knew, for instance, that during the Vietnam War that the best way to avoid fighting the NLF was to play in the NFL? Masterfully researched, brimming with well-mined quotes, and leavened with astute analysis, the book makes the difficult job of good writing appear effortless. Anybody wanting to know how football got so big, and politics got so mean, needs to pick up Pigskin Nation."--Thomas M. Grace, author of Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOutstanding Book Award, Communication and Sport Division of the National Communication Association, 2019 Best Book Award, American Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2019 ". . . thoughtful, well-researched analysis. . . . This book makes an important contribution to communication scholarship." --Journal of Communication"An exciting project that promises to impact understandings of Native American mascots in powerful ways. Mascot Nation provides fresh perspectives on the use of American Indian imagery in sport. Rather than restate existing arguments in the ongoing controversy, Billings and Black weave together established understandings and new empirical research to clarify not simply what mascots mean but also how they matter in sport and society. Of particular note, they craft a well-rounded and fully grounded account by engaging with people and perspectives from all sides of the controversy. Mascot Nation will become essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the study and struggle over Native American mascots. It will soon come to be seen as an exemplar for the study of sport communications."--C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand"Valuable . . . Examine[s] all sides of the issue with an objective eye."--Booklist"Mascot Nation is a welcome addition to the literature on the Native American mascot controversy. Well researched and clearly written, this account offers a novel, interdisciplinary, multidimensional approach. Recommended." --Choice"Mascot Nation fills a gap by casting a wide net and offering conclusions backed by the diverse cast of disciplines that are engaged in mascot research." --H-Net Reviews"In Mascot Nation, Andrew Billings and Jason Black have taken on an enduring controversy in the study of sport and culture. Their savvy multi-method study illuminates how embedded representations of Native American mascots have built historical affinities that fans have for sports teams and highlights the important role that media has played in constructing and celebrating problematic understandings of Native Americans and their traditions. Through careful deconstruction of the central tendencies in case studies of media practices and the debates around them, this is a seminal study that will challenge sports fans to reconsider the harms in the legacies that have naturalized misunderstandings of Native American cultures."--Lawrence Wenner, editor-in-chief, Communication & Sport

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"While athletes' own navigation of family life has received some attention, how does this arrangement affect their partners who are tasked with an array of visible and invisible labor to make their family work? This is the focus of Steven M. Ortiz's The Sport Marriage. . . . The Sport Marriage opens up many new avenues to interrogate the interweaving of gender, work, and family in the world of professional sports." --Symbolic Interaction”In this keenly observed, empathic, and insightful work, Steven Ortiz recounts the inner experience of wives married to both a man and his sports career. Ortiz observes the precise order in which wives sit on the bench in the stadium, how they respond to affair-seeking groupies, to more senior sports wives, news of a sudden cross-country trade, an intrusive mother-in-law, a lasting head-injury. He explores the complex art of managing a backstage role. This is the best book I know of on the sport marriage.”—Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right”In this insightful book, Steven Ortiz unveils the heretofore hidden realities of the lives of women who marry male pro athletes. Beneath the veneer of public glory and fortune the general public may assume makes for a perfect life, Ortiz reveals the stresses and strains of women’s emotional and managerial labor as 'marriage workers' in a high-pressure, career-dominated marriage. Through sensitive interviewing and deft observation, Ortiz shows both the oppressive costs of these women’s subordination within the sport marriage, and their creative, and even sometimes resistant, strategies to assert and meet their own and their children’s needs.”—Michael A. Messner, coeditor of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"On the whole, Catalonia's Human Towers is a marvelous ethnography, reliant on fine-grained insights gained from thorough fieldwork. Her prose is highly accessible, and her text is alive to contemporary concerns within anthropology, performance studies, nationalist studies, and allied disciplines."—Jeremy MacClancy, author of Anthropology in the Public Arena: Historical and Contemporary Contexts"Mariann Vaczi takes us inside the complex embodied collaboration that generates Catalonia's human towers. Celebrated as allegories of national striving, raised literally to new heights by the incorporation of women and girls, transitioning from festival into sport, these ephemeral constructions also anchor support networks and mediate social inclusion. Tracing the practice through the European economic crisis, the Catalan independence referendum, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Vaczi elegantly captures the force of endlessly renewed collective effort against the eternal threat of collapse."—Dorothy Noyes, author of Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco, and Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life."At the intersection of effervescent regional separatism, cultural habits of competition and death-defying risk, multiple activisms, gender tensions, and intergenerational solidarity lies an unusual form of bodily confluence: the Catalan human tower. Mariann Vaczi weaves her vivid ethnographic account, as structured and as intricate as the towers of living bodies she describes, to show us how social actors physically debate the dilemmas of identity in daring, defiant, and demonstrative displays. Through her intensely observed account of the enduring tug-of-war between the sensual and the sensible, Vaczi brings immersive fieldwork and political history into a lively and engaging synergy."—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"This lovely book is as intriguing and illuminating as the incredible ten story human towers it describes. Vaczi takes us on a journey into the world of the castells and their Catalan makers in a brilliant exploration of solidarity and complexity at possibility's tottering edge."—Orin Starn, author of The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal."Catalonia's Human Towers demonstrates how close attention to a visually spectacular sporting event can enhance our understanding of local politics, ethnic relations, and social organization and identity. Mariann Vaczi has produced a magnificent, beautifully written and illustrated contribution to the ethnography of contemporary Iberia and the Mediterranean world. It is a literary and social scientific treasure"—Stanley Brandes, University of California, Berkeley.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sisyphean AscentVisual Glossary1. From "People of Farts and Burps" to Crowning the Olympic Games2. The Politics, Erotics, and Social Class of Touch and the Body3. Risking the Fall4. Rivalry, Antagonism, and Identity Among the Boys of Valls5. Bones Have No Gender6. The Grace in Every Child7. At the Height of DeathEpilogue: Rebuilding Towers in Messianic Times and the Global PandemicBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Incisive and troubling." -- Marilyn Dahl * Shelf Awareness for Readers *"Playing While White is a critical text for anyone interested in sports and whiteness studies and definitively puts to rest the claim that race is irrelevant in the commentaries surrounding athletes and their participation in sports." * Black Perspectives (AAIHS) *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Scrappy White Leader 2. He Got Brains: Whiteness and Intelligence on and off the Court 3. Talking Trash (While White): A Betrayal of Tradition or a Sign of Competitive Leadership? 4. White Thugs?: Crime and the Culture of Innocence 5. Getting High: The New Jim Crow and White Athletes 6. Redemption and Character Building: Making Mistakes While White 133 7. (White) Women and Sports: Selling White Femininity 8. Driving While White: NASCAR and the Politics of Race 9. Playing the White Way: From the Cardinals to the Badgers 10. Sporting Cultures and White Victims

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Incisive and troubling." -- Marilyn Dahl * Shelf Awareness for Readers *"Playing While White is a critical text for anyone interested in sports and whiteness studies and definitively puts to rest the claim that race is irrelevant in the commentaries surrounding athletes and their participation in sports." * Black Perspectives (AAIHS) *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Scrappy White Leader 2. He Got Brains: Whiteness and Intelligence on and off the Court 3. Talking Trash (While White): A Betrayal of Tradition or a Sign of Competitive Leadership? 4. White Thugs?: Crime and the Culture of Innocence 5. Getting High: The New Jim Crow and White Athletes 6. Redemption and Character Building: Making Mistakes While White 133 7. (White) Women and Sports: Selling White Femininity 8. Driving While White: NASCAR and the Politics of Race 9. Playing the White Way: From the Cardinals to the Badgers 10. Sporting Cultures and White Victims

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Book SynopsisForces us to consider how profoundly tourism changed Colorado and America and to grapple with both the potential and the problems of our familiar ways of relating to environment, nature, and placeTrade Review"The author utilizes a bevy of archival and public documents. Photographs, maps, charts, and a substantial bibliography support the book. Recommended." * Choice *"William Philpott’s Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country is the best book yet published on an array of critical topics in Colorado history. . . . What’s more, Vacationland is far and away the most illuminating book yet written on postwar Colorado. Philpott’s research is exhaustive, his prose is elegant but crystal-clear, and his interpretations are almost uniformly persuasive. Vacationland seems bound to earn vociferous praise from scholars. Yet this is also a book that merits widespread attention from general readers. If I were asked to recommend just one work to citizens or visitors seeking to orient themselves to the origins of the contemporary Colorado landscape, this would be it." -- Thomas Andrews * Center for Colorado and the West *"Although a scholarly work of interest to environmental scientists and historians. . . the extraordinarily multidisciplinary nature of the content— illustrating economic, marketing, political, and sociological aspects of our American history—gives it broad appeal. The entertaining narrative style makes the content accessible to an audience beyond experts, suitable for students, and general readers." -- Kathleen Butler * Electronic Green Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword: At Home and at Play in the High Country by William Cronon Introduction: Seeing Like a Tourist 1. Selling the Scene 2. The Roads Nature Made? 3. Our Big Backyard 4. Blueprints for Action 5. The John Denver Tenor Conclusion: How Tourism Took Place Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the region's dramatic transformation in the decades after World War II, when a loose coalition of tourist boosters fashioned alluring images of nature in the high country and a multitude of local, state, and federal actors built the infrastructure for high-volume tourism.Trade Review"The author utilizes a bevy of archival and public documents. Photographs, maps, charts, and a substantial bibliography support the book. Recommended." * Choice *"William Philpott’s Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country is the best book yet published on an array of critical topics in Colorado history. . . . What’s more, Vacationland is far and away the most illuminating book yet written on postwar Colorado. Philpott’s research is exhaustive, his prose is elegant but crystal-clear, and his interpretations are almost uniformly persuasive. Vacationland seems bound to earn vociferous praise from scholars. Yet this is also a book that merits widespread attention from general readers. If I were asked to recommend just one work to citizens or visitors seeking to orient themselves to the origins of the contemporary Colorado landscape, this would be it." -- Thomas Andrews * Center for Colorado and the West *"Although a scholarly work of interest to environmental scientists and historians. . . the extraordinarily multidisciplinary nature of the content— illustrating economic, marketing, political, and sociological aspects of our American history—gives it broad appeal. The entertaining narrative style makes the content accessible to an audience beyond experts, suitable for students, and general readers." -- Kathleen Butler * Electronic Green Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword: At Home and at Play in the High Country by William Cronon Introduction: Seeing Like a Tourist 1. Selling the Scene 2. The Roads Nature Made? 3. Our Big Backyard 4. Blueprints for Action 5. The John Denver Tenor Conclusion: How Tourism Took Place Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisPart ethnography, part memoir, this book traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. It also traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America.Trade Review"Required reading for coffee's true believers and industry insiders." -- Oliver Strand T: The New York Times Style Magazine "You'll find your eyes opened beyond the new and storied cafes you've heard of and into regional corners and paradoxical tastes." Serious Eats "A fascinating 130-year illumination of Japan's deeply rooted sipping culture." LA Weekly "This excellent book combines academic rigour with lively descriptions and compelling prose." Times Higher Education "Provides an engaging and often personal account of Japanese coffeehouses... Highly recommended." -- R. R. Wilk, Indiana University Choice "Merry White has whiled away many hours in cafes in Japan in her professional role as an anthropologist, and wishes to communicate the diversity and intimacy one can experience in them." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Perhaps this isn't really a review, more a recommendation - all I can really say is that I enjoyed it, and ... you'll probably enjoy this too." Jimseven "This book will certainly give you ... a lot of new knowledge and maybe a whole new perspective on Japanese culture." Yum "Coffee Life in Japan provides a novel and significant study on contemporary Japanese life." -- Willa Zhen, Culinary Institute of America Journal Of American-East Asian Relations "Wake up to the world of Coffee Life in Japan, a book brimming with surprising tidbits, astute observations, and stories from the heart... If you're a [coffee maniac], clearly Coffee Life in Japan is the must-have book for you." -- Kate Heyhoe Caffeine and YouTable of ContentsIllustrations Preface 1. Coffee in Public: Cafe's in Urban Japan 2. Japan's Cafe's: Coffee and the Counterintuitive 3. Modernity and the Passion Factory 4. Masters of Their Universes: Performing Perfection 5. Japan's Liquid Power 6. Making Coffee Japanese: Taste in the Contemporary Cafe' 7. Urban Public Culture: Webs, Grids, and Third Places in Japanese Cities 8. Knowing Your Place Appendix: Visits to Cafe's, an Unreliable Guide Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisPresents an examination of the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. This title discusses the origins of surfing in Hawai'i, its central role in Hawaiian society, and the mele (chants) and hula (dance or visual poetry) about surfing.Trade Review"[Cooley] tells a story that is just good entertainment. It will appeal to general audiences as much as it will to surfers and fans of surf music and surf culture." -- Brett Leigh Dicks Santa Barbara News Press "A serious book about a normally laid-back subject." -- Phyllis Fong Men's Journal "Invites the reader to hop on the board and catch the (sound) wave." -- Bill Baars Library Journal "Cooley, an ethnomusicologist and a surfer, finds commonalities in the ephemeral, creative qualities of the two activities." -- Star-Advertiser Staff Honolulu StarTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Online Examples Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Trouble in Paradise: The History and Reinvention of Surfing 2. "Surf Music" and the California Surfing Boom: New Surfing Gets a New Sound 3. Music in Surf Movies 4. Two Festivals and Three Genres of Music 5. The Pro Surfer Sings 6. The Soul Surfer Sings 7. Playing Together and Solitary Play: Why Surfers Need Music Notes Bibliography Discography Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisTokyo Disneyland has been analyzed mainly as an example of the globalization of the American leisure industry and its organizational culture. Looking at how the park is experienced by employees, management, and visitors, Raz shows that rather than being an agent of Americanization, it is a simulated America showcased by and for the Japanese.Trade ReviewRaz’s study of Tokyo Disneyland (TDL) is a well-grounded case of domestication. The central question of the study is to examine how Walt Disney World, as a globalizing and imperialistic operation, has been reworked into the localized cultural networks of Japan… This book is a strong case of glocalization, collapsing the global and local. -- Eric K. W. Ma * Journal of Communication *Raz’s socio-anthropological study describes how a significant piece of American business, ideology, and fantasy has been remade in Japan. Raz challenges the popular idea of Tokyo Disneyland as being a cultural imperialism. Rather, he found that it has succeeded precisely because it has become Japanese while marketing itself as American… [A] fine ethnography. -- M. Y. Rynn * Choice *

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Book Synopsis Written by leading figures in the social sciences, the book synthesizes theory and research in social science and sport and promotes development of and through sport. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making the Case for the Social Sciences of Sport, Exercise, and Health The Sport Ethic and the Natural Sciences Proposing a Human Development Model Part I. Identity: Definitions, Development, and the IndividualChapter 1. History of Sport Wray Vamplew, PhD Relationships With Other Disciplines Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary Chapter 2. Philosophy of Sport Sigmund Loland, PhD, and Michael McNamee, PhD Historical Overview of the Discipline Main Theoretical Perspectives Key Debates Future Directions Summary Chapter 3. Psychology of Sport David Lavallee, PhD, John Kremer, PhD, and Aidan Moran, PhD Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary Part II. Community: Place, Space, Image, and the Social Chapter 4. Anthropology of Sport Alan Klein, PhD Foundations in Sociocultural Anthropology Post-1970: The Athletic El Dorado and the Anthropologists Who Seek Him Looking Outward Summary Chapter 5. Sociology of Sport Joseph Maguire, PhD Historical Development and Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives A Sociological Account of Sport: Critical Findings Future Directions and Key Debates Summary Chapter 6. Geography of Sport Christopher Gaffney, PhD Historical Trajectory of the Geography of Sport Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Key Debates and Critical Findings Future Directions Summary Chapter 7. Media Studies and Sport David Rowe, PhD Historical Connections and Questions in Media Studies Understanding Media: Core Concepts Media Powers and Routines: Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings and Key Debates in Sport and Media Conclusion: Sport and Media Studies in Transition Part III. Capital: Wealth, Power, and ResourcesChapter 8. Economics and Sport Stefan Szymanski, PhD Professional League Model: Theory and Policy Productivity Studies Economic Impact: Measurement, Theory, and Policy Sport, Physical Activity, and Well-Being Illustrations of Economic Issues Conclusions Chapter 9. Political Science and Sport Jonathan Grix, PhD Core Concepts in Political Science Study of Sport and Politics Research Paradigms and Theoretical Perspectives in Political Science Applying Political Science and Sport: The Governance of Sport and the Politics of Mega-Events Summary Chapter 10. International Relations and Sport Roger Levermore, PhD, and Aaron Beacom, PhD Core Concepts and Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings and Key Debates Summary Part IV. Governance: Regulation, Organization, and ImplementationChapter 11. Sport and the Law Deborah Healey, LLB, LLM (Hons) The Global Organization and Regulation of Sport Overview: The Place of Law in Sport Are the Courts Always Interested in Sport? Governance Aspects of Industry Self-Regulation in Sport Summary Chapter 12. Sport and Social Policy Ramón Spaaij, PhD Discipline of Social Policy: A Historical Overview Main Theoretical Perspectives Key Concepts Key Debates Summary Chapter 13. Sport and Management Studies Lucie Thibault, PhD Sport as a Unique Industry Historical Overview Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary Chapter 14. Sport and Education Dawn Penney, PhD Core Concepts Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary

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Book SynopsisChallenging the well-worn images of rodeo as a white man’s sport, A Wilder West shows how rodeo brought together Aboriginal and settler men and women into relationships of competition and camaraderie, forging new identities and communities in the process.Trade ReviewBy using rodeo as the central contact zone, Kelm provides a very interesting and nuanced way of examining settler and Aboriginal relations in Western Canada...Kelm's book makes an important contribution to Canadian history. She successfully demonstrates that Western Canadian settlers and Aboriginal peoples did not operate in a static fashion or interact solely along the rigid lines of the colonization narrative. -- Michael Commito, McMaster University * Essays in History *Mary-Ellen Kelm’s book is a welcome addition to a somewhat sparse scholarly literature on the history of rodeo in Canada…overall, this study is well conceived and filled with personalized stories to keep readers interested and to deepen knowledge about localities. Kelm fulfills her intent to demonstrate the palpable “linkages between cultural display and political action” in terms of colonial history and has also created a good resource for studies about masculinities linked to sport and identity... -- Lynda M. Annik, Newfoundland Memorial University * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 An Old-Timers’ Town: Western Communities, Performance, and Contact Zones2 Truly Western in Its Character: Identities, Affinities, and Intimacies at Western Canadian Rodeo3 A Sport, Not a Carnival Act: Transforming Rodeo from Performance to Sport4 Heavens No! Let’s Keep It Rodeo! Pro Rodeo and the Making of the Modern Cowboy5 Going Pro: Community Rodeo in the Era of Professionalization6 Where the Cowboys Are Indians: Indian and Reserve Rodeo in the Canadian WestConclusionGlossary; Notes; Index

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Book SynopsisChallenging the well-worn images of rodeo as a white man’s sport, A Wilder West shows how rodeo brought together Aboriginal and settler men and women into relationships of competition and camaraderie, forging new identities and communities in the process.Trade ReviewBy using rodeo as the central contact zone, Kelm provides a very interesting and nuanced way of examining settler and Aboriginal relations in Western Canada...Kelm's book makes an important contribution to Canadian history. She successfully demonstrates that Western Canadian settlers and Aboriginal peoples did not operate in a static fashion or interact solely along the rigid lines of the colonization narrative. -- Michael Commito, McMaster University * Essays in History *Mary-Ellen Kelm’s book is a welcome addition to a somewhat sparse scholarly literature on the history of rodeo in Canada…overall, this study is well conceived and filled with personalized stories to keep readers interested and to deepen knowledge about localities. Kelm fulfills her intent to demonstrate the palpable “linkages between cultural display and political action” in terms of colonial history and has also created a good resource for studies about masculinities linked to sport and identity... -- Lynda M. Annik, Newfoundland Memorial University * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 An Old-Timers’ Town: Western Communities, Performance, and Contact Zones2 Truly Western in Its Character: Identities, Affinities, and Intimacies at Western Canadian Rodeo3 A Sport, Not a Carnival Act: Transforming Rodeo from Performance to Sport4 Heavens No! Let’s Keep It Rodeo! Pro Rodeo and the Making of the Modern Cowboy5 Going Pro: Community Rodeo in the Era of Professionalization6 Where the Cowboys Are Indians: Indian and Reserve Rodeo in the Canadian WestConclusionGlossary; Notes; Index

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Book SynopsisSporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the Japanese invasion. By re-mapping lives and careers of these athletes, administrators, and film actors within a wartime context, Gao shows how they coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame. Addressing themes of state control, media influence, fashion, and changing gender roles, she argues that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China at a time when women's emancipation and national needs went hand in hand. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these athletes and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Zhang Huilan (1898-1996): The “Mother of Women’s Modern Physical Education”2 Nationalist and Feminist Discourses on Jianmei (Robust Healthy Beauty)3 The Basketball Team of the Private Liangjiang Women’s Tiyu Normal School4 The Evanescent Glory of the Track Queens5 “Miss China,” Yang Xiuqiong (1918-82): A Female Olympic Swimmer6 Sportswomen on Screen: The “Athletic Movie Star,” Li Lili (1915-2005)ConclusionNotes; Glossary of Chinese Terms, Titles, and Names; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisSexual assault by and against athletes is a pervasive and long-standing problem in Canada, but reports are commonly minimized, doubted, and dismissed by sport administrators, police, and judges. Through a detailed examination of over 300 cases appearing in news media and legal files across Canada from 1990 to 2020, Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport uncovers an enduring institutional tolerance of sexual assault in Canadian sport and the betrayal that many victims experience by those same institutions. Curtis Fogel and Andrea Quinlan argue further that both the Canadian sport system and the criminal legal system have failed to ensure victims' safety and often undermine sexual assault prevention and trauma-informed care.Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport opens new avenues for critical dialogue about sport, law, masculinities, and gender-based violence. Crucially, it also offers constructive strategies to increase safety in sport. Table of Contents1 Sport, Sexual Assault, and the Law: An Introduction2 Athlete-Perpetrated Sexual Assault: Misogyny, White Male Privilege, and Entitlement in Competitive Men’s Sport3 Group Sexual Assault: A Theatre for Performing Violent Masculinities4 Sexually Violent Hazing: Power, Humiliation, and Group Dominance Bonding5 Sexual Exploitation by Authority Figures: Institutional Tolerance and Betrayal within the Canadian Sport System6 Breaking the Cycle of Sexual Assault in Canadian SportAppendix A: Reports of Athlete-Perpetrated Sexual AssaultAppendix B: Reports of Athlete-Perpetrated Group Sexual AssaultAppendix C: Reports of Sexually Violent HazingAppendix D: Reports of Sexual Assaults Involving Authority Figures in SportNotes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisThe author chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1970s to being embraced and imitated globally today. For young black men, he argues, they represent a new version of the American dream, one embodying the hopes and desires of those excluded from the original version.Trade Review“A powerful and provocative history of modern basketball and how issues of race, class and popular culture have played out both on and off the basketball court.”—Publishers Weekly“An insightful look at how African American basketball players and rappers have gone from being reviled by mainstream audiences to being imitated around the world.”—Essence“Boyd effortlessly threads the past thirty years of basketball culture, the cost of being outspoken, and the pressures of a power structure and media glare that both cheers and reviles.”—UpscaleTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Bison Books EditionIntroduction: The Playa's Life1. Young, Black, Rich and Famous: 'Ball, Hip Hop, and the Redefinition of the American Dream2. Don't Get High on Your Own Supply: The NBA's Image Problem Back in the Day3. That Ol' Black Magic and the Great White Hope: Basketball and Race in the Reagan Era4. Chocolate City: Georgetown and the Intelligent Hoodlums5. I Am: Hip Hop, the Individual, and the Culture of Michael Jordan6. My Detroit Playaz: Ballin' in the Motor City7. The Takeover: The Fab Five, Hip Hop, and College 'Ball8. Leaders of the New School: The Answer, "Karaoke Jordan," and the Modern-Day Balla9. Can It All Be So Simple? Internationally Known, Nationally Recognized, and Locally Accepted

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of ski bum history and culture and the socio-economic factors that are shaping it todayTrade Review“In Search of Powder by Jeremy Evans is funny, irreverent, hedonistic, saucy, insightful, and ski-obsessed. Much like the ski bums detailed within.”—Rob Story, editor at large of Powder and Skiing magazines"A provocative new book."—Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee"[A] superb book about ski towns like ours."—George Shirk, Mammoth Times"Evans' book chronicles all this in fine details, gathered over several seasons of boarding and interviewing. He has all the history, all the names and all the places. If you're an ex-ski bum, this is required reading. If you remember those days, ditto. Or if you just like tales of men and women on the edge, give it a read. And keep an eye out for Evans, he's still riding our slopes."—Sam Bauman, Nevada Appeal"In Search of Powder is a comprehensive, well-written and well-reasoned homage to a lifestyle that many of us yearn for, secretly or otherwise."—Ted Holteen, Durango Herald"Evans tells the story of quintessentially American characters—rejecting materialism, taking risks, following their own paths—and of the glories and pitfalls their lifestyles present."—ForeWord e-newsletterTable of ContentsForeword by Glen PlakeAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1 - Shangri-laChapter 2 - Den of the Face RatsChapter 3 - Suburbanite Ski BumsChapter 4 - Ski Town InvasionChapter 5 - Resorting to MadnessChapter 6 - Swift, Silent, DeepChapter 7 - Kodak CourageEpilogueBibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Antolihao provides a well-crafted narrative of the historical and social discourse of basketball in the Philippines."—Chad Carlson, Journal of Sport History"Antolihao has written a very interesting study that nobody working on Philippine basketball and baseball can ignore."—Stefan Hübner, Journal of Asian American Studies“Attentive to the ways in which so many aspects of political and national discourse intersect with the game of basketball. Any historians working on Philippine history or the history of sport and colonialism would be well served by reading this work.”—Andrew D. Morris, professor of history at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Spheroid of Influence: Sports, Colonization, Modernity2. From Baseball Colony to Basketball Republic: Postcolonial Transition and National Sporting Culture3. The Hollywoodization of Hoops: Basketball, Mass Media, Popular Culture4. Rooting for the Underdog: Sports, Spectatorship, Subalternity5. Basketball without Borders: Globalization and National Sports in Postcolonial ContextConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA play-by-play account of how the drive for sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban residents, and sports fans have all come out losers.Trade Review“A thoughtful and comprehensive examination of the curious issue of love and money in sport.”—Frank Deford, Senior Contributing Writer at Sports Illustrated and author of The Entitled“A well-written and poignant analysis of America's stadium mess.”—Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College, and author of In the Best Interests of Baseball? The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig“Field of Schemes is a superb work of investigative reporting and righteous indignation. The fan pays twice: once for the stadium and again for the ticket to get into the stadium. If enough fans read it, we could break this cycle.”—Allen Barra, sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal and author of The Last Coach: A Life of Paul “Bear” Bryant“This is as crystal clear as it gets. Field of Schemes shows exactly how your tax dollars end up in the pockets of sports team owners and players in our fake democracy.”—Jim Bouton, author of Ball Four and Foul Ball“If this book had been around for the Greeks to read, they would have learned that they should’ve billed Troy for the horse.”—Molly Ivins, newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author"In exposing the template used by greedy owners and corrupt politicians, the authors have provided a great service for concerned public officials and fans who no longer have to sit in silence."—Christopher Keshock, NINETable of ContentsPreface to the New Edition by Neil deMause Introduction: The View from the Cheap Seats 1. A Tale of Two Inner Cities2. Stealing Home 3. Ball Barons 4. The Art of the Steal5. Deus Ex Pizza6. Home Field Advantage 7. Local Heroes 8. Bad Neighbors 9. Repeat Offenders 10. The Bucks Stop Here 11. Winning Isn't Everything 12. Extra Innings 13. The Art of the Steal Revisited 14. Youppi! Come Home 15. The Perfect Storm 16. Saving Fenway Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the construction of race in Western societies through a study of the black African migrant athlete. Munene Franjo Mwaniki presents ten black African migrant athletes as a conceptual starting point to interrogate the nuances of white supremacy and of the migrant and immigrant experience with a global perspective.Trade Review"Using extensive archival news database research, the author examines representations of these athletes in terms of racial and national stereotypes. Mwaniki's particular strength here is in his multilayered analyses. He skillfully examines how the athletes themselves navigate both positive and negative media representations, explores the ways their reactions impact their identity, and finally considers what those representations mean to the larger African and Western communities. Scholars of race, media, and nationalism, among other areas, will find this work to be a valuable contribution to the field."—A. Curtis, Choice"Mwaniki’s text is an absolute must read: it is groundbreaking, captivating, eye-opening, and truly innovative in its discussions of the representation of the Black African migrant. . . . Whether situated in the United States, the United Kingdom, or any other part of the Western world, I implore scholars to read this book and engage with its dominant messages."—Rory Magrath, American Journal of Sociology“Engaging, timely, and important, The Black Migrant Athlete carves out new ground within discussions of sport and society with its focus on migration, African athletes, and media representations. Truly novel and innovative, this is a must-read.”—David J. Leonard, author of Playing While White “The Black Migrant Athlete is a fascinating analysis of media representations of African immigrant athletes. . . . Mwaniki expertly shows that [a] contradiction lies at the heart of paternalistic loathing that greets even the most privileged African immigrants to the West.”—Monica McDermott, associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Working Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations “Ground-breaking. . . . An original and timely text that encourages us to think globally, historically, and critically about the myriad situated ways that black migrant athletes are rendered variously similar and Other in the Western imagination.”—Daniel Burdsey, deputy head of research in the School of Sport and Service Management at the University of Brighton and author of Race, Place, and the Seaside: Postcards from the Edge Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Black African Immigration to the West 1. Race and Sport: Situating the Black African Athlete 2. Everyday Othering: Boundary Making and Maintenance 3. Model Minorities: Origin Stories, Hard Workers, and Humanitarians 4. “Bad” Blacks: Contingent Acceptance and Essentialized Blackness 5. Immigrant Reception: Nationalism, Identity, Politics, and Resistance 6. The Diasporic Athlete: Blackness and Meaning in the African Diaspora 7. The Sporting Migrant: Antiblack Racism and the Foreign Other Appendix A: Methodology and Data-Gathering Procedures Appendix B: Individuals in the Study Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFootball. Far more than a game, America's favourite spectator sport is an intrinsic part of the nation's popular culture - a proving ground for high school athletes, a springboard for stars, a multimillion-dollar business, and a vast entertainment enterprise. Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture provides a detailed look at America's pastime through the lens of pop culture.Trade Review"Armchair quarterbacks as well as pop-culture junkies will enjoy diving into this informative and wide-ranging A-Z rundown on the players, teams, epic match-ups, concepts, equipment, expressions and other assorted gridiron odds 'n' ends that have made football an intrinsic part of American life."—Neil Pond, American Profile"From African Americans to the number Zero, this clever and informative book is designed to acquaint you with the developments in the game, the major players, coaches and innovators, and the cultural influences on (and from) the great game of football."—Doc Kirby, Book Bit, WTBF-AM/FM"A treasure trove of information for fans and history/culture lovers alike."—Kevin Holtsberry, Collected Miscellany"For those who want a better overall understanding of the gridiron game, Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture . . . is an excellent starting point."—Ron Kaplan, ForeWord"[Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture] is an interesting collection of items and essays. . . . It is a reference work worthy of a library, whether university, public, or personal."—Richard C. Crepeau, AreteTable of ContentsPreface African Americans (College) African Americans (Professional) Agents All-America Football Conference American Football League (i, ii, iii) American Football League (iv) American Indians Apparel Arctic Football Arena Football AstroTurf Autry, Carlos Alan (b. 1952) Baugh, Samuel Adrian (Slingin’ Sammy, the Texas Tornado) (19142008) Bednarik, Charles Philip (Concrete Charlie) (b. 1925) Belichick, William Stephen (b. 1952) Big Hit Black College Football Bowden, Robert Cleckler (Bobby) (b. 1929) Bowl Games Bradshaw, Terry Paxton (b. 1948) Brady, Thomas Edward, Jr. (b. 1977) Brown, James Nathaniel (b. 1936) Brown, Johnny Mack (the Dothan Antelope) (19041974) Brown, Paul Eugene (19081991) Bryant, Paul William (Bear) (19131983) Camp, Walter Chauncey (the Father of American Football) (18591925) Canadian Football League Canton Bulldogs Carlisle Indian Industrial School Celebrations Cheating Cheerleaders Coin Toss Commercials and Advertisements Commissioners Concussions Cosell, Howard William (19181995) Crime Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Davis, Allen (Al) (b. 1929) Davis, Ernie (the Elmira Express) (19391963) Disabilities Ditka, Michael Keller, Jr. (Iron Mike, Da Coach) (b. 1939) Dogfighting Downtown Athletic Club Draft Drive, The Dropkick Education Eliot, Charles William (18341926) Elway, John Albert (b. 1960) Equipment Extreme Football Eyeglasses Falwell, Jerry Lamon (19332007) Fantasy Football Favre, Brett Lorenzo (b. 1969) Films Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott Key (18961940) Flag Football Flying Wedge Forward Pass Four Horsemen of Notre Dame Friday Night Lights Gambling Gangs and Street Violence Gibbs, Joe Jackson (b. 1940) Gifford, Frank Newton (the Giffer) (b. 1930) Gil Thorp Gipp, George (the Gipper) (18951920) Globalism Golden Dome Graham, Otto Everett, Jr. (Automatic Otto) (19212003) Grambling State University Grandfathers Grange, Harold Edward (Red, the Galloping Ghost) (19031991) Greatest Game Greene, Charles Edward Joseph (Mean Joe) (b. 1946) Gridiron Gun Violence “Hail Mary” Pass Halas, George Stanley (Papa Bear) (18951983) Hall of Fame (College) Hall of Fame (Professional) Hay, Ralph E. (18911944) Hayes, Wayne Woodrow (Woody) (19131987) Heffelfinger, William W. (Pudge) (18671954) Heisman, John William (18691936) Heisman Trophy Hirsch, Elroy Leon (Crazylegs) (19232004) Hnida, Katharine Anne (Katie) (b. 1981) Holy Roller Hornung, Paul Vernon (the Golden Boy) (b. 1935) Hudson, Donald Edward (b. 1929) Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Ice Bowl Immaculate Reception Instant Replay Internet Ivy League Jackson, Vincent Edward (Bo) (b. 1962) Jewelry (Bling) Katrina (Hurricane) Kennedy, John F., Assassination of Kerouac, Jack (Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac) (19221969) Kickoffs Korean War Labor-Management Relations Landry, Thomas Wade (19242) Language Leahy, Francis William (Frank) (19081973) Literature Little Rock Central Tigers Lombardi, Vincent Thomas (19131970) Madden, John Earl (b. 1936) Magazines Manning, Peyton Williams (b. 1976) Marino, Daniel Constantine, Jr. (b. 1961) Marshall University Air Tragedy Mascots and Team Names McNally, John Victor (Johnny Blood, the Vagabond Halfback) (19031985) Middle Age Monday Night Football Montana, Joseph Clifford (the Comeback Kid, Joe Cool) (b. 1956) Moss, Randy Gene (b. 1977) Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside Music Nagurski, Bronislaw (Bronko) (19081990) Namath, Joseph William (Joe Willie, Broadway Joe) (b. 1943) Newspapers Newsreels nfl Junior Player Development Nicknames Obesity Officials (Zebras) Ohio League Olsen, Merlin Jay (b. 1940) Oorang Indians Page, Alan Cedric (b. 1945) Parcells, Duane Charles (Bill, the Big Tuna) (b. 1941) Parseghian, Ara Raoul (b. 1923) Paterno, Joseph Vincent (JoPa) (b. 1926) Payton, Walter Jerry (Sweetness) (19541999) Peanuts Perfection Perry, William Anthony (the Refrigerator, the Fridge) (b. 1962) Plimpton, George Ames (19272003) Poe, Edgar Allan (18091849) Politicians Pollard, Frederick Douglass (Fritz) (18941986) Pop Warner Little Scholars Practice Squad Presidents of the United States Professional Football Origins Punt, Pass & Kick Purdue’s Golden Girl Quarterback Radio Radio Helmet Religion Retirement Rice, Grantland (18801954) Rice, Jerry Lee (World) (b. 1962) Rivalries Robeson, Paul Leroy Bustill (18981976) Robinson, Eddie Gay (19192007) Rockne, Knute Kenneth (18881931) Rooney Rule Rugby Saban, Nick Lou (b. 1951) Sanders, Barry David (b. 1968) Sanders, Deion Luwynn (Neon Deion, Prime Time) (b. 1967) Sayers, Gale Eugene (b. 1943) Scouts September 11 Terrorist Attacks Sexuality Shotgun Formation Shula, Donald Francis (b. 1930) Simpson, Orenthal James (O.J., the Juice) (b. 1947) Six-Man (Eight- and Nine-Man) Football Stagg, Amos Alonzo (the Grand Old Man of the Midway) (18621965) Substance Abuse Subway Alumni Suicide Super Bowl Tailgating Tank McNamara Taylor, Lawrence Julius (b. 1959) Television Broadcasting Text Messaging/Instant Messaging Thanksgiving Thorpe, James Francis (Wa-Tho-Huk) (18881953) Tillman, Patrick Daniel (19762004) Title ix Tittle, Yelberton Abraham (Y.A.) (b. 1926) Tomlinson, LaDainian (lt) (b. 1979) Touch Football Touchdown Jesus Trades Trading Cards Trick Plays Triple Crown Unitas, John Constantine (Johnny U, the Golden Arm) (19332002) United States Football League Upshaw, Eugene Thurman, Jr. (19452008) Vietnam War Walker, Ewell Doak, Jr. (the Doaker, Dynamite Doak, Dauntless Doak) (19271998) Walsh, William Ernest (the Genius) (19312007) Ward, Arch (the Cecil B. de Mille of Sports) (18961955) Warner, Glen Scobey (Pop) (18711954) Wheaties White, Byron Raymond (Whizzer) (19172002) White, Reginald Howard (Reggie, the Minister of Defense) (19612004) Wild Card Wildfires Williams, Errick Lynne, Jr. (Ricky) (b. 1977) Wine Women Players World Football League World War i World War ii X’s and O’s Yost, Fielding Harris (Hurry Up) (18711946) Young, Jon Steven (Steve) (b. 1961) Zero Index

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Book SynopsisSports fandom determines how millions of Americans define themselves. In We Average Unbeautiful Watchers, Noah Cohan examines contemporary sports culture to show how mass-mediated athletics are in fact richly textured narrative entertainments rather than merely competitive displays.Trade Review"Cohan's book will appeal to cultural critics, fans of all stripes, and American Studies scholars as it thoroughly and convincingly examines an understudied and undertheorized perspective of the Sport(s) Media Industrial Complex."—Scott D. Peterson, Sports Literature Association"For a different look at sports fandom, this is a book well worth checking out."—Lance Smith, Guy Who Reviews Sports Books“This is a first-rate contribution to the field of sports studies and an important work for scholars within literary studies. The thoroughness and breadth of this interdisciplinary research is breathtaking. But more impressive still is the deft and precise manner in which Noah Cohan has brought the many and varied concepts and sources to bear to clarify our understanding of his objects of study and of his argument. He manages to be at once engaging, vivid, interesting, and crystal clear. . . . This book is a pioneering and genuinely unique contribution.”—Yago Colás, professor of English at Oberlin College and author of Ball Don’t Lie: Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball“Noah Cohan’s We Average Unbeautiful Watchers offers novel ways of thinking about and contextualizing sports fandom as an important, diverse, complex, and artful creative practice. It brings together an eclectic range of source material to broaden understandings of fandom beyond its stereotypical roots in ‘fanaticism’ and association with torso-painted and hollering bros to explain this phenomenon’s contested politics and cultural work.”—Travis Vogan, author of ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television “Noah Cohan deftly demonstrates that, far from mindless entertainment, sports fandom is an enormously complex and significant form of human meaning-making. Analyzing sports fan narratives across a staggering range of media, Cohan draws us into the inner and the social lives of American sports fans, which are by turns disturbing, fascinating, and inspiring.”—Erin C. Tarver, associate professor of philosophy at Oxford College of Emory University and author of The I in Team: Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of IdentityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. So We Fabricate: Baseball and the Unfriendly Confines of History 2. It was My Fate, My Destiny, My End, to Be a Fan: Football, Mental Illness, and the Autobiographical Novel 3. Race in the Basketball Memoir: Fan Identity and the Eros of “a Black Man’s Game” 4. It’s Been a Problem with Me and Women: Failed Masculinities in Depictions of Sports Fans on Film 5. Reimagined Communities: Web-Mediated Fandom and New Narrative Possibilities for Sport Epilogue: Feminist Rewritings of Sports Fan Culture Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Slantwise Moves is an important contribution to a materialist history and analysis of the ideological work of amusement cultures in the United States . . . While scholars narrowly focused on video games may find the promise of some terms unfulfilled, Guerra presents a nuanced set of readings that has something to offer every scholar working along on the diagonal line of literature, games, and history." * Modern Philology *"Guerra offers an important advance in thinking about games in relation to the major currents of American history. More than a reflection of ideology or a product of social relations, games are sites where individuals could rehearse and transform their repertoires of social life." * American Journal of Play *"Slantwise Moves recovers forgotten nineteenth-century games from obscurity and interprets them as part of a history of American selfhood or agency, reading them against and in relation to other nineteenth-century cultural productions. This important and original book will prove compelling for Americanists, especially scholars of nineteenth-century literature and the history of the book, but will also find readers among anyone with an interest in games and game studies." * Lisa Gitelman, New York University *

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Book SynopsisBaseball’s past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been written about both the sport and its history. This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball - how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today.

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Book SynopsisCovers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry. The authors explain how football transformed from a sport at elite boarding schools in England to become a pastime popular with the working classes.Trade ReviewThis fascinating history of football in its social and cultural context offers many fresh insights. Grounded in sound scholarship, but written in an engaging and accessible style, it will be of considerable interest to football fans as well as being a core text for courses in sports history.""- Wyn Grant, University of Warwick and coeditor of The Transformation of European Football, blogs at Addicks Championship Diary and The Political Economy of Football.

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Book SynopsisIncidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? Kathryn E. Henne, a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and science of anti-doping regulations, examines the development of rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international sports.Trade Review"With sophisticated analysis and descriptive prose, Testing for Athlete Citizenship offers provocative arguments. Author Kathryn Henne breaks new ground in showing that testing practices are not just about catching 'cheaters,' but are implicated in corporal, gendered, economic, and postcolonial ideologies." -- Mary G. McDonald * Homer C. Rice Chair in Sports and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology *"A masterpiece of hybrid governance. This book chronicles with nuance the entire global history of a regulatory regime, yet through a micro lens, through the eyes and bodies of colonized athletes. A landmark of gendered and racialized problematics of fair play." -- John Braithwaite * Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University *"Even though anti-doping regulation and gender verification testing were not implemented until the late 1960s, the ways in which Henne demonstrates how the definition of athlete citizenship these practices circumscribed embedded older notions of ideal athleticism suggest her conceptualization of athletes as a specific caste of citizens could intriguingly influence scholars of sport studying a range of time periods." * Sport in American History *"Henne expands beyond an examination of doping control and looks more broadly at other forms of biomedicalized surveillance." * Journal of Sport History *"In Testing for Athlete Citizenship, Henne achieves a difficult task in providing a compelling, thought-provoking analysis of an intangible gate-keeping structure in sport, based on the concept of ‘athlete citizenship.’" * Sport, Ethics and Philosophy *"In Testing for Athlete Citizenship Henne achieves a difficult task in providing a compelling, thought-provoking analysis of an intangible gate-keeping structure in sport, based on the concept of ‘athlete citizenship.’" * Sport, Ethics and Philosophy *Table of Contents PrefaceList of Abbreviations1 Introduction2 Diagnosing Doping: The Institutionalization of the Moral Crusade3 Codifying the Code: The Legalization of Anti-Doping Regulation4 Impossible Purities: The Gendered Science of Fair Play5 A Pure Playing Field Nation: The Curious Case of New Zealand6 ConclusionAppendix Research Methods: On Secrets and Multi-Sited StorytellingNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTough and witty, SportsWorld is a well-known commentator's overview of the most significant form of mass culture in Americasports. It's a sweaty Oz that has grown in a century from a crucible for character to a complex of capitalism, a place where young people can find both self-fulfillment and cruel exploitation, where families can huddle in a sanctuary of entertainment and be force fed values and where cities and countries can be pillaged by greedy team owners and their paid-for politicians. But this book is not just a screed, it's a guided visit with such heroes of sports as Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Joe Namath, who the author knew well, and with some he met in passing, like Richard Nixon, who seemed never to have gotten over missing the cut in college varsity football, a major mark of manhood. We see how SportsWorld sensibilities help elect our politicians, judge our children, fight our wars, and oppress our minorities. And now featuring a new introduTrade Review"Robert Lipsyte is one of the most significant sports journalists of my lifetime. SportsWorld features the insight, prescience, social conscience, and willingness to break from the pack that set Lipsyte apart." -- Bob Costas"Robert Lipsyte is our best guide to the dramatic, wondrous, and ultimately all-absorbing culture of American sports. Brilliantly written and sharply articulated, this classic text is an insightful and important journey into the heart of American sports and by extension, American society." -- Gay Talese * bestselling author and journalist *"Bob Lipsyte's underappreciated masterpiece. Ahead of its time in every way. Nothing less than the most important sports book ever written." -- Dave Zirin * Sports Editor, The Nation *“An incisive, intelligent, beautifully written book.” * Newsday *“Mr. Lipsyte is a brilliant writer. He can turn a phrase as effortlessly as Earl the Pearl spinning, faking left, then right, to sink a fallaway jumper. He is as erudite in his references . . . as Bill Bradley. He is a phrase maker and a wit.” -- Anatole Broyard * The New York Times * “You will never look at a sports event in quite the same way again.” -- Paul D. Zimmerman * Newsweek *"It is in that other thing, the simple and wonderful act of playing, that Lipsyte, despite his withering analysis of the country’s sports obsession, finds hope: 'Yet for all the cynicism and oppression and betrayal, the rhythms of sport, the sensations, and the emotions, are often the most intense and pleasurable ever experienced.'" * New Yorker *"Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Trump's War on Black Jocks" by Robert Lipsyte, mention of book * TomDispatch *"I'd like to believe that all of us, even overserved, media-saturated fans, are more willing to follow Lipsyte's example in believing that 'sports matters event if there is something the matter with sports.'" * Bookforum *"A very readable book!" * Idrottsforum *"What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift," by Robert Lipsyte * The Nation *"Robert Lipsyte is one of the most significant sports journalists of my lifetime. SportsWorld features the insight, prescience, social conscience, and willingness to break from the pack that set Lipsyte apart." -- Bob Costas"Robert Lipsyte is our best guide to the dramatic, wondrous, and ultimately all-absorbing culture of American sports. Brilliantly written and sharply articulated, this classic text is an insightful and important journey into the heart of American sports and by extension, American society." -- Gay Talese * bestselling author and journalist *"Bob Lipsyte's underappreciated masterpiece. Ahead of its time in every way. Nothing less than the most important sports book ever written." -- Dave Zirin * Sports Editor, The Nation *“An incisive, intelligent, beautifully written book.” * Newsday *“Mr. Lipsyte is a brilliant writer. He can turn a phrase as effortlessly as Earl the Pearl spinning, faking left, then right, to sink a fallaway jumper. He is as erudite in his references . . . as Bill Bradley. He is a phrase maker and a wit.” -- Anatole Broyard * The New York Times * “You will never look at a sports event in quite the same way again.” -- Paul D. Zimmerman * Newsweek *"It is in that other thing, the simple and wonderful act of playing, that Lipsyte, despite his withering analysis of the country’s sports obsession, finds hope: 'Yet for all the cynicism and oppression and betrayal, the rhythms of sport, the sensations, and the emotions, are often the most intense and pleasurable ever experienced.'" * New Yorker *"Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Trump's War on Black Jocks" by Robert Lipsyte, mention of book * TomDispatch *"I'd like to believe that all of us, even overserved, media-saturated fans, are more willing to follow Lipsyte's example in believing that 'sports matters event if there is something the matter with sports.'" * Bookforum *"A very readable book!" * Idrottsforum *"What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift," by Robert Lipsyte * The Nation *Table of ContentsContents Introduction to the 2017 Edition Introduction to the Original Edition Chapter 1. Welcome to SportsWorld Chapter 2. Please Rise for Our National Pastime Chapter 3. Sport of the Sixties: Instant Replay ... Replay ... Replay ... Chapter 4. The Heavyweight Crown Prince of the World Chapter 5. Sport of the Seventies: Sly, Midnight Moves Chapter 6. The Rack Page Chapter 7. The Body Biz Chapter 8. Designated Heroes, Ranking Gods, All-Star Holy Persons Chapter 9. The Last American Dream Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the mystique of the ballparkTrade Review"A fascinating book!" -- Doug Miller,for MLB.com"Borer's text is a solid achievement." -- Robert Trumpbour * American Studies Journal *"Borer has captured the magic of Fenway Park." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin"Even if you dont already love the Red Sox, youll love this account of the stories people tell about why Fenway matters." -- Nancy T. Ammerman,author of Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives"Even Yankee fans will have much to consider from this book, published so soon after the Red Sox curse has ended. This is an important work of the sociology of sport and of urban sociology." -- Gary Alan Fine,author of With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Pre-adolescent Culture"Borer haunted Fenway Park for several season. He talked to players, executives, vendors, fans. Trot Nixon discussed the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry with him, and former Red Sox second basemen Mike Andrews described the sadness of being traded." * The Falmouth Enterprise *"Along with his astute social scientific insight, Borer also includes plenty of first-person accounts of the ballpark from Red Sox greats like Carl Yastrzemski and Johnny Pesky and from regular Bostonians and out-of-town baseball fans. This ability to intermingle scholarly research with Americas beloved pastime has allowed Borer to write an astute academic treatise that has the appeal of a consumer sports pub." * Publishers Weekly *"Borers Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and Americas Most Beloved Ballpark gives proper props to the Red Sox home since 1912" * Sacramento Bee *"Faithful to Fenway is a must-have item for the Red Sox fans who champion their old stadium despite its uncomfortable seats" * Portland Press Herald *"A must-have item for Red Sox fans who champion their old stadium." * Maine Sunday Telegram *"Borer assesses the attraction of Fenway Park through his own expert lens. The results . . . will prove invaluable not only to Red Sox and more general baseball scholars but also to students of urban life, the organization of limited inner-city space, social psychology and collective memory, how a baseball park can become a cultural shrine, and a cohorts shared valuesnot to mention Fenways contributions to our understanding of fandom" * Library Journal *"While many writers have likened Americas particular devotion to baseball to religious devotion, Borer gives texture and substance to the metaphor through curious and moving stories of Red Sox fans treatment of Fenway as sacred turf." * American Journal of Sociology *"Bostons Fenway Park has become as valued as any star player in those cities and as much an attraction as the teams themselves. Borer, a sociologist and lifelong New Englander, explores the history of Fenway and its place in Bostons culture through research and interviews with players, stadium personnel, fans, and team owners. . . . [H]e explains Fenways place in the culture as an example of identity continuity. Fenway is an emotional anchor for fans in the sense that it encompasses a part of an individuals past and present." * Booklist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments INTRODUCTIONThe Sociology of Green Monsters and Broken CursesBOSTON BELIEVESFenway Park, a "Lyrical Little Bandbox"THE BIRTH OF AN URBAN BALLPARKLeisure, Nostalgia, and the Baseball Creed THE BALLPARK AT RESTThe Civic Partnership between Boston, the Red Sox, and the Fenway Faithful OBJECTS OF FAITH AND CONSUMPTION Souvenirs, Replicas, and Other Representations of Fenway Park SOME DIAMONDS ARE NOT FOREVERDebating the Future of Fenway Park BELIEVE IN BOSTONRed Sox Nation and the Cultural Power of Place APPENDIXMaking the Familiar Strange: Urban Sociology at the Ballpark Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisB. David Ridpath offers clear steps to address the exploitative entanglement of sports and education in America and to create a new status quo. He lays out four possible alternative models that draw various elements from academic, athletic, and European approaches.Trade Review“The day will come when we fundamentally reimagine the role of sports in schools—the health, social and economic needs of the 21st century demand it. Dave Ridpath gets the conversation started with this fascinating exploration of what’s possible.”

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Book SynopsisIn parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. This work contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. It explores the interconnections between baseball and Cuban identity.Trade Review“The Quality of Home Runs offers engaging and provocative perspectives on socialism, nationalism, masculinity, and the embodiment and poetics of sport in Cuba, all seen from the vantage point of the stadium stands and the streets of Havana. Thomas F. Carter’s emphasis on themes such as spectacle, social drama, struggle, and discipline of both players and fans, on and off the field, builds a persuasive analysis of changing notions of what it means to be Cuban.”—Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: Entering the Field vii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Theoretical "Stretching:" of Sport and the State 1 1. Baseball and the Language of Contention 17 2. Circling the Base Paths: Baseball, Migration, and the Cuban Nation 36 3. The Spectacle of and for Cuba 63 4. The State in Play: The Politics of Cuba's National Sport 89 5. Fans, Rivalries, and the Play of Cuba 111 6. Talking a Good Game 136 7. The Qualities of Cubanidad: Calidad and Lucha in Baseball 159 Conclusion: Touching 'Em All: Recalling and Recounting Home Runs 183 Notes 203 Works Cited 213 Index 231

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Book SynopsisAnthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a global stage.Trade Review"In this far-reaching work, Rachael Miyung Joo reveals transnational sport as a powerful lens for observing the making of 'global Koreanness.' From the South Korean golfer Se Ri Pak and the baseball player Chan Ho Park to the Korean adoptee and Olympic skier Toby Dawson and the mixed-race Korean NFL player Hines Ward, and from the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan to North–South Korea sporting matches, we learn not only of adoring fan bases, but more expansively of South Korean, Korean American, and transnational Korean publics whose affinities and potentials far exceed sport. Transnational Sport beautifully demonstrates the power and pleasures of sport, as well as its enormous scholarly reach."—Nancy Abelmann, author of The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation"To be part of the international sports community means, in our moment, to live paradoxically: to simultaneously support from within the nation and to express that support across national boundaries in such a way as to almost invalidate the nation. Transnational Sport is a dedicated study of this dilemma. Rachael Miyung Joo delineates the difficult, sometimes conflicting ways in which the national and the transnational cohabit in the global Korean sports community. Written with passion and a sympathetic critical eye, Transnational Sport lends a vivacity and a certain pathos to the standing of Korean athletes, such as the baseballer Chan Ho Park, the golfer Se Ri Pak, and the Olympic gold-medalist figure skater Kim Yuna."—Grant Farred, author of Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football“Joo’s use of ethnographic material, participant observation, and interviews are justifiably necessary and highly enriching to her study of the negotiations between gender, media, and global Korea.” -- Myoung-Sun Song * International Journal of Communication *“Transnational Sport is an accessible yet rigorously written book that will help closely investigate the world that transnational/Korean media sport has made. Thus, the book is highly recommended for courses on, as well as for scholars and students in the fields of, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies of sport; Asian American studies; and Asian studies.” -- Jin-Kyung Park * Journal of Asian Studies *“Transnational Sport makes an excellent contribution to both Korean and Korean American studies by offering thoughtful analyses of wide-ranging interesting data and critical ethnographic commentaries on the sociocultural and political economic significance of transnational media sport.” -- Chunghee Sarah Soh * American Ethnologist *“Rachael Miyung Joo presents a well-rounded look at transnational sport in her book. It covers many important and interesting topics. . . .[The] content of each topic is informative and the analysis, inspiring. . . . The various topics discussed in the book offer multiple entries for worthwhile comparison beyond South Korea alone.” -- Hsueh-cheng Yen * Asian Anthropology *"Writing in clear authoritative prose and avoiding the jargon of historical discourse and examined identity, Joo provides clear explanations in each chapter of her main points and conclusions. . . . Recommended." -- K. Lynass * Choice *"Joo... advance[s] our understanding of the key roles that sports play in gendering societies in Asia, but with clear application to other parts of the world. [Transnational Sport is] invaluable for researchers, and I highly recommend [the book] for classroom use." -- Yunxiang Gao * Signs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration xiii Introduction: Manufacturing Koreanness through Transnational Sport 1 Part I. Situating Transnational Media Sport 1. To Be a Global Player: Sport and Korean Developmental Nationalisms 35 2. A Leveraged Playing Field: U.S. Multiculturalism and Korean Athletes 65 Part II. Reading Masculinities and Femininities through Transnational Athletes 3. Playing Hard Ball: The Athletic Body and Korean/American Masculinities 101 4. Traveling Ladies: Neoliberalism and the Female Athlete 131 Part III. The Transnational Publics of the World Cup 5. Nation Love: The Feminized Publics of the Korean World Cup 163 6. Home Field Advantage: Nation, Race, and Transnational Media Sport in Los Angeles's Koreatown 194 7. Generations Connect: Discourses of Generation and the Emergence of Transnational Youth Cultures 222 Conclusion: The Political Potentiality of Sport 250 Notes 267 References 303 Index 323

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Book SynopsisThis book is a result of an output of a Commission of the World Leisure and Recreation Association (WLRA) to examine the role of leisure and education for leisure activities among people with special needs living in the community, and requiring social or health services outside hospital. It provides a conceptual and practical framework for understanding the role of leisure education for community development with a special emphasis on special populations. It will also serve the reader as a foundation for developing models and programmes for leisure education within community settings.Table of Contents1: Educating the Community for Developmental Opportunities in Leisure, Jay Shivers, University of Connecticut, USA 2: Leisure Education, Serious Leisure and Community Development, Robert A Stebbins, University of Calgary, Canada 3: Community Development Through Leisure Education: Conceptual Approaches, Atara Sivan 4: Leisure Education, Quality of Life and the Community Development: Toward a Systematic and Holistic Coping and Resilient Model for the Third Millennium, Joseph Levy, York University, Ontario, Canada 5: Mobility for Action - Advocacy and Empowerment for the Right of Leisure Play and Recreation, Arnold H Grossman, New York University, USA 6: Global Edutainment: The Role of Leisure Education for Community Development, Wolfgang Nahrstedt, University of Bielefeld, Germany 7: Community Vision and Resources: Commitment, Capacity and Collective Effort, Arnold H Grossman 8: Leisure Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, Jay Shivers 9: The Role of Leisure Counselling for Special Populations in Facilitating Successful Adjustment to Life in the Community, Michael J Leitner, California State University, USA 10: Serious Leisure for People with Disabilities, Robert A Stebbins 11: Leisure Education, Quality of Life and Populations with Special Needs, Atara Sivan 12: Active Living for People with Disabilities: Towards the Concept of Equality of Well-Being and Human Authenticity, Joseph Levy 13: Community Empowerment, Poverty and Leisure Education, Elisheva Sadan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 14: Establishing a Model for the Rehabilitation of Children with Special Needs, Sam Raz, Jerusalem, Israel 15: Youth at Risk and Leisure Education, Hillel Ruskin 16: Practical Approaches to Leisure Education for the Elderly, Debra Markus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 17: Concluding Remarks, Atara Sivan and Hillel Ruskin

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Book SynopsisThe first book to integrate the social science literature on outdoor recreation, this volume reviews studies from this broad, interdisciplinary field and synthesizes them into a body of knowledge, providing an historical perspective on outdoor recreation research and developing its practical management implications.

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Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Leading anthropologists describe the range of human expression through performance and explore its role in constructing identity and community, as well as broader processes such as globalization and transnationalism. Introduces new and advanced students to the task of studying and interpreting complex social, cultural, and political events from a performance perspective Presents performance as a convergent field of inquiry that bridges the humanities and social sciences, with a distinctive cross-cultural perspective in anthropology Demonstrates the range of human expression and meaning through performance in related fields of religious & ritual studies, folkloristics, theatre, language arts, andTrade Review“This volume is a comprehensive and well-structured compilation of previously published essays, articulating how anthropology has explored diverse instances of performance . . This book will be of great use to graduate students looking to specialize in the field, or faculty members who wish to deepen their understanding of established concepts and perhaps recast their own work.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 June 2015) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments to Sources vii The Anthropology of Performance: An Introduction 1 Frank J. Korom Part I Performance in Prehistory and Antiquity 9 1 Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry 11 Anthony Tuck 2 Performance and Written Literature in Classical Greece: Envisaging Performance from Written Literature and Comparative Contexts 26 Rosalind Thomas Part II Verbal Genres of Performance 37 3 Playing the Dozens 39 Roger D. Abrahams 4 The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Community 49 Richard Bauman 5 Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore 61 E. Ojo Arewa and Alan Dundes 6 Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times 73 Philip A. Noss 7 Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women’s Crying-Songs 80 Fiona Magowan Part III Ritual, Drama, and Public Spectacle 95 8 Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts 97 Sam D. Gill 9 Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality 107 Edward L. Schieffelin 10 “He Should Have Worn a Sari”: A “Failed” Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic 124 Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 11 Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition 133 Rosemarie K. Bank 12 The Palio of Siena: Performance and Process 150 Alice Pomponio Logan Part IV Performance and Politics in the Making of Communities 165 13 Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Village 167 Gail Kligman 14 The Matter of Talk: Political Performances in Bhatgaon 174 Donald Brenneis 15 Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics 183 Frank E. Manning 16 Performing the Nation: China’s Children as Little Red Pioneers 199 T.E. Woronov Part V Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumene 215 17 The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco 217 Deborah A. Kapchan 18 Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidoˆ and the Shaping of Ainu Identity 234 Lisa Hiwasaki 19 What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Diaspora 250 Esiaba Irobi 20 Global Breakdancing and the Intercultural Body 260 Halifu Osumare Further Readings 273 Index 287

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Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Leading anthropologists describe the range of human expression through performance and explore its role in constructing identity and community, as well as broader processes such as globalization and transnationalism. Introduces new and advanced students to the task of studying and interpreting complex social, cultural, and political events from a performance perspective Presents performance as a convergent field of inquiry that bridges the humanities and social sciences, with a distinctive cross-cultural perspective in anthropology Demonstrates the range of human expression and meaning through performance in related fields of religious & ritual studies, folkloristics, theatre, language arts, andTrade Review“This volume is a comprehensive and well-structured compilation of previously published essays, articulating how anthropology has explored diverse instances of performance . . This book will be of great use to graduate students looking to specialize in the field, or faculty members who wish to deepen their understanding of established concepts and perhaps recast their own work.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 June 2015) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments to Sources vii The Anthropology of Performance: An Introduction 1Frank J. Korom Part I Performance in Prehistory and Antiquity 9 1 Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry 11Anthony Tuck 2 Performance and Written Literature in Classical Greece: Envisaging Performance from Written Literature and Comparative Contexts 26Rosalind Thomas Part II Verbal Genres of Performance 37 3 Playing the Dozens 39Roger D. Abrahams 4 The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Community 49Richard Bauman 5 Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore 61E. Ojo Arewa and Alan Dundes 6 Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times 73Philip A. Noss 7 Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women’s Crying-Songs 80Fiona Magowan Part III Ritual, Drama, and Public Spectacle 95 8 Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts 97Sam D. Gill 9 Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality 107Edward L. Schieffelin 10 "He Should Have Worn a Sari": A "Failed" Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic 124Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 11 Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition 133Rosemarie K. Bank 12 The Palio of Siena: Performance and Process 150Alice Pomponio Logan Part IV Performance and Politics in the Making of Communities 165 13 Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Village 167Gail Kligman 14 The Matter of Talk: Political Performances in Bhatgaon 174Donald Brenneis 15 Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics 183Frank E. Manning 16 Performing the Nation: China's Children as Little Red Pioneers 199T.E. Woronov Part V Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumene 215 17 The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco 217Deborah A. Kapchan 18 Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidô and the Shaping of Ainu Identity 234Lisa Hiwasaki 19 What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Diaspora 250Esiaba Irobi 20 Global Breakdancing and the Intercultural Body 260Halifu Osumare Further Readings 273 Index 287

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