Rooting for the home team : sport, community, and identity / / edited by Daniel A. Nathan

• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/83
• Soggetto topico: Sports - Social aspects - United States; Sports - United States
• Altri autori: NathanDaniel A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Sport, Community, and Identity Daniel A. Nathan""; ""1. Basketball and Magic in ""Middletown"": Locating Sport and Culture in American Social Science Mark Dyerson""; ""2. the Biggest ""Classic"" of Them All: The Howard University and Lincoln University Thanksgiving Day Football Games, 1919-1929 David K. Wiggins""; ""3. Bobby Jones, Southern Identity, and the Preservation of Privilege Catherine M. Lewis"" ; ""4. Football Town under Friday Night Lights: High School Football and American Dreams Michael Oriard""""5. Girls' Six-Player Basketball: ""The Essence of Small-Town Life in Iowa"" Jaime Schultz and Shelley Lucas""; ""6. Chicago's Game Christopher Lamberti""; ""7. The Baltimore Blues: The Colts and Civic Identity Daniel A. Nathan""; ""8 The Voice of Los Angeles Elliott J. Gorn and Allison Lauterbach""; ""9. We Believe: The Anatomy of Red Sox Nation Amy Bass""; ""10. American Brigadoon: Joe Paterno's Happy Valley David W. Zang""; ""11. Jayhawk Pride Michael Ezra"" ; ""12. Finding My Place: A Sports Odyssey Susan Cahn""""13. A Philadelphia Nocturne Mike Tanier""; ""14. The Cult of Micky Ward in Massachusetts Carlo Rotella""; ""Afterword Daniel A. Nathan""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: This title examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Angeles as well as small rural towns, suburbs, and college towns, the contributors consider the idea that rooting for local athletes and home teams often symbolizes a community's preferred understanding of itself, and that doing so is an expression of connectedness, public pride and pleasure, and personal identity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rooting for the home team
• ISBN: 1-299-46341-X; 0-252-09485-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808665003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II