ISBN:
9780691074474
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (381 p)
Series Statement:
Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Offside : Soccer and American Exceptionalism
DDC:
306.4830973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does most of the world ignore American sports in return? Offside is the first book to explain these peculiarities, taking us on a thoughtful and engaging tour of America's sports culture and connecting it with other fundamental American exceptionalisms. In so doing, it offers a comparative analysis of sports cultu
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; One: The Argument: Sports As Culture in Industrial Societies-American Conformities and Exceptions; Two: The Formation of the American Sport Space: "Crowding Out" and Other Factors in the Relegation and Marginalization of Soccer; Three: Soccer's Trials and Tribulations: Beginnings, Chaos, "Almosts," Obscurity, and Colleges; Four: The Formation and Rearrangement of the American Sport Space in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century; Five: From the North American Soccer League to Major League Soccer
Description / Table of Contents:
Six: The World Cup in the United StatesSeven: The Coverage of World Cup '98 by the American Media and the Tournament's Reception by the American Public; Conclusion; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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