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This wide-ranging collection of essays seeks to challenge the 'common-sense' assumption that entertainment activities have no function but to fill up otherwise empty moments. As such it builds on the term - coined by the Victorians - 'Recreation', and argues that in the entertain...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Spalding, Roger, Brown, Alyson
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Temas:
Leisure > Great Britain > History.
Leisure > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Amusements > Great Britain > History.
Amusements > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Loisir > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Loisirs > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Sociology: sport & leisure.
The self, ego, identity, personality.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Amusements.
Amusements > Social aspects.
Leisure.
Leisure > Social aspects.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Animals, leisure and status: some aspects of pet-keeping in the Middle Ages / John Simons
  • Molyneux
  • "Munix" the dancing man / Michael Hayes
  • Contemporary carnival: Blackpool and the symbolic suspension of real-life / Jill Fernie-Clark
  • Policeman on the case: Early chess in Lancashire and the Preston Guardian chess column 1879-83 / Tim Harding
  • Identifying the British yachtsman, 1815 to 1939 / Roger Ryan
  • "Wonders in nature and art": Reynold's Museum of Curiosity and the Lime Street entertainment industry in Liverpool, 1860-1900 / Vaness Toulmin
  • Popular theatre and revolutionary identity: Anarchist and communist culture in Paris, 1900-1934 / The Last Adventurers: a case study of British cinema and the creation of identity in the 1930s / Roger Spalding
  • "Doing the right thing": Harry Belafonte as a political and civil rights activist / Kevern Verney.

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