Ball Don't Lie

Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball

Yago Colás (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2016
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-1243-0 (ISBN)

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Pro basketball player Rasheed Wallace often exclaimed the pragmatic truth “Ball don’t lie!” during a game. It is a protest against a referee’s bad calls. But the slogan, which originated in pickup games, brings the reality of a racialized urban playground into mainstream American popular culture.

In Ball Don’t Lie!, Yago Colás traces the various forms of power at work in the intersections between basketball and language from the game’s invention to the present day. He critiques existing popular myths concerning the history of basketball, contextualizes them, and presents an alternative history of the sport inspired by innovations. Colás emphasizes the creative prerogative of players and the ways in which their innovations shape—and are shaped by—broader cultural and social phenomena.

Ball Don't Lie! shows that basketball cannot be reduced to a single, fixed or timeless essence but instead is a continually evolving exhibition of physical culture that flexibly adapts to and sparks changes in American society.

Yago Colás teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature and in the Residential College at the University of Michigan and is the author of Postmodernity in Latin America: The Argentine Paradigm.

Preface: In Praise of Heresy
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Ball Don't Lie!" December 2, 2012

I Myths of the Basketball Republic (1891–1949)
1. The Myth of Creation, December 21, 1891
2. The Myth of Foundation, June 6, 1946

II Myths of the Modern Basketball State (1949–1991)
3. The Myth of the Rivalry, November 7, 1959
4. The Myth of the Garden, May 8, 1970
5. The Myth of the Amateurs, March 26, 1979

III Myths of the Basketball Empire (1991–Present)
6. The Myth of the Greatest of All Time, June 13, 1991
7. The Myth of Blackness, March 12, 1997
8. The Myth of the Right Way, June 15, 2004
9. The Myth of the Man, July 8, 2010

Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2016
Reihe/Serie	Sporting
Verlagsort	Philadelphia PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4399-1243-2 / 1439912432
ISBN-13	978-1-4399-1243-0 / 9781439912430
Zustand	Neuware