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| Imprint: ABC-CLIO |
| Publication Date: 11/2004 |
| Pages: 479 |
| Volumes:
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| Size:
8 1/2x11 |
| Format | | Price | | ISBN-13 | | Print | | $95.00
$47.50 | | 978-1-57607-024-6 | | eBook | |
Call for Price | | 978-1-85109-559-9 |
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Sport in American Culture
From Ali to X-Games
Joyce D. Duncan, Editor
A unique and timely exploration of the cultural impact of sport on American society, including lifestyles, language, and thinking.
From cereal to civil rights, there is no area of American culture that has not been touched in some way by sport. More than 80 percent of Americans attend at least one live sporting event a year and many watch or engage in sports on a regular basis. Sport has created billion-dollar industries and forged millionaire superstars. It has impacted television, permeated our language, produced role models, and on occasion, even brought on national disgrace.
Sport in American Culture is the first and only reference work to provide an in-depth and up-to-date exploration of sport and its impact on American culture. Essays from more than 200 scholars, professionals, and sports enthusiasts address how sport has changed our lifestyles, language, and thinking.
Arranged alphabetically, the work introduces key sport figures and national icons, with a focus on their cultural impact, examines individual sports and how they have influenced society, and discusses such phenomena as the billion-dollar athletic apparel industry, sport as big business, and the effect of sport on gender, racial views, pride, and nationalism. In addition to expected topics, the work also includes less studied areas such as myths, audience rituals, Wheaties, comic books, the hula hoop, and religion.
Features
- 400 A–Z entries covering a wealth of topics, including sports heroes, artifacts of sport, culture of consumption, racial discrimination, and gender
- 200+ distinguished contributors, including academics and professionals from a wide variety of fields
- Lavish illustrations and photographs support the subject areas and examples covered
- Extensive bibliographic information with individual reading suggestions for further study
Highlights
- Illustrates the permeation of sport in American culture
- Covers not only sports and sports figures but also areas of material culture
- Addresses fads, trends, and the economic impact of sport
- Offers topics rarely found in works on sport, such as Wheaties, comic books, the hula hoop, and religion
Joyce D. Duncan is managing editor of the Sport Literature Association and founding editor of Arete, an online discussion group for sport literature enthusiasts, and a faculty member at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, where she teaches service-learning. Her published works include Heirs to Misfortune and Ahead of Their Time: A Biographical Dictionary of Risk-Taking Women.
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