African American Athletes
American Football
athletic hero narratives
Black Athletes
Blue Jays
Canadian hockey
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collective memory studies
cultural identity sport
Darryl Strawberry
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figure skating
globalisation of North American sport culture
gymnastics
Hitting Streak
Lucky Strike
Master Settlement Agreement
media representation sport
Moral Past
National Basketball Association
National Hockey League
nationalism and sport
North America-American baseball
North American Free Trade Agreement
Professional Golf Association Tour
Pure Play
sport performance
sports sociology research
Star Narrative
Super Bowl
Super Bowl Advertisements
Switch Boards
Title IX
Triple Axle
Wayne Gretzky
Women's Figure Skating
Women’s Figure Skating
World Curling Federation
World Series Wins
Youth Baseball
Product details
- ISBN 9780714682051
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball and football, figure skating and gymnastics, Canadian hockey and track and field, for example - show the potency of sport's "cultural work". The book captures uplifting images which are stressed in the public performance and national and international broadcasting of sport, but also notes the omissions and distortions of social reality that persist in sport performance and mass marketing in North America.
Stephen Wieting
