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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bocketti, Gregg (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Soccer > Social aspects.
Soccer players.
Soccer.
Manners and customs.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
Soccer > Social aspects > Brazil > History.
Soccer players > Brazil > History.
Soccer > Brazil > History.
Brazil.
Bresil > Moeurs et coutumes.
Brazil > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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