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The Invention of the Beautiful Game : Football and the Making of Modern Brazil /

"In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as 'foot-ball' at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian 'futebol, ' o jogo bonito...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bocketti, Gregg (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Playing for the nation : the ideology of Brazilian sports
  • Building and rebuilding the society of football
  • Students and masters : national identity and international football
  • Respectability, emotion, and gender in Brazilian spectatorship
  • The invention of the beautiful game
  • Epilogue: The life of the beautiful game.