The Country of Football

Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil

Roger Kittleson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2014
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-27909-4 (ISBN)

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Soccer is the world's most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian. Yet the practice and history of soccer are also synonymous with conflict and contradiction as Brazil continues its trajectory toward modernity and economic power. The ongoing debate over how Team Brazil should play and positively represent a nation of demanding supporters bears on many crucial facets of a country riven by racial and class tensions. The Country of Football is filled with engaging stories of star players and other key figures, as well as extraordinary research on local, national, and international soccer communities. Soccer fans, scholars, and readers who are interested in the history of sport will emerge with a greater understanding of the complex relationship between Brazilian soccer and the nation's history.

Roger Kittleson is Professor of History at Williams College and the author of The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil: Porto Alegre, 1845--1895.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Serious Play 1. A National Game: Futebol Made Popular, Professional, and Afro-Brazilian 2. When It was Good to be Brazilian: Tropical Modernity Affirmed, 1958--70 3. Playing Modern: Efficiency over Art, 1971--80 4. Risky Beauty: Art and the Opening of Brazil in the 1980s 5. The Business of Winning: Brand Brazil and the New Globalism, 1990--2010 Conclusion: Mega-Brazil Notes Works Cited Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.6.2014
Reihe/Serie	Sport in World History ; 2
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-520-27909-3 / 0520279093
ISBN-13	978-0-520-27909-4 / 9780520279094
Zustand	Neuware