ISBN:
9780813565569
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 175 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Critical issues in sport and society
Parallel Title:
Print version Indian spectacle
DDC:
306.4/83
Keywords:
Indians as mascots
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Indians of North America Social conditions 20th century
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Sports team mascots Social aspects
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Indians as mascots
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Sports team mascots ; Social aspects ; United States
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Indians of North America ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Indian Spectacle explores the ways in which white, middle-class Americans have consumed narratives of masculinity, race, and collegiate athletics through the lens of Indian-themed athletic identities, mascots, and music. Drawing on a cross-section of American institutions of higher education, Guiliano investigates the role of sports mascots in the big business of twentieth-century American college football in order to connect mascotry to expressions of community identity, individual belonging, stereotyped imagery, and cultural hegemony
Abstract:
"In recent decades U.S. colleges and universities have been prone to changing athletic conference affiliations, seeking increased public prestige, building fan bases, and, of course, growing revenues. Such moves are driven by a very realistic set of calculations: in 2010 the collective revenue of the fifteen highest-grossing teams in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) topped one billion dollars, a hefty figure that does not even take into account the revenue generated by the sales of university-related apparel and athletic gear. Expressions of team allegiance, particularly the display of sports mascots, are a visual expression of this American obsession with collegiate sport. In American Spectacle, historian Jennifer Guiliano investigates the role of sports mascots in the big business of American college football in order to connect mascotry to twentieth-century expressions of community identity, individual belonging, stereotyped imagery, and cultural hegemony. To do so, she historicizes the creation and spread of mascots and university identities as something bound up in the spectacle of halftime performance, the growth of collegiate competition, the anxiety of middle-class masculinity, and the commercialization of athletics in the first two decades of the twentieth century"--
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionKing football and game-day spectacle -- An Indian versus a Colonial legend -- And the band played narratives of American expansion -- The limitations of halftime spectacle -- Student investment in university identities -- Indian bodies performing athletic identity -- Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813565569
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