Offside : : Soccer and American Exceptionalism / / Andrei S. Markovits, Steven L. Hellerman.
Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does m...
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Markovits, Andrei S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Offside : Soccer and American Exceptionalism / Andrei S. Markovits, Steven L. Hellerman. Core Textbook Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©2001 1 online resource (384 p.) : 5 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 61 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Argument: Sports As Culture in Industrial Societies -- 2. The Formation of the American Sport Space -- 3. Soccer's Trials and Tribulations -- 4. The Formation and Rearrangement of the American Sport Space in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- 5. From the North American Soccer League to Major League Soccer -- 6. The World Cup in the United States -- 7. The Coverage of World Cup '98 by the American Media and the Tournament's Reception by the American Public -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does most of the world ignore American sports in return? Offside is the first book to explain these peculiarities, taking us on a thoughtful and engaging tour of America's sports culture and connecting it with other fundamental American exceptionalisms. In so doing, it offers a comparative analysis of sports cultures in the industrial societies of North America and Europe. The authors argue that when sports culture developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nativism and nationalism were shaping a distinctly American self-image that clashed with the non-American sport of soccer. Baseball and football crowded out the game. Then poor leadership, among other factors, prevented soccer from competing with basketball and hockey as they grew. By the 1920s, the United States was contentedly isolated from what was fast becoming an international obsession. The book compares soccer's American history to that of the major sports that did catch on. It covers recent developments, including the hoopla surrounding the 1994 soccer World Cup in America, the creation of yet another professional soccer league, and American women's global preeminence in the sport. It concludes by considering the impact of soccer's growing popularity as a recreation, and what the future of sports culture in the country might say about U.S. exceptionalism in general. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh Arbor, Ann, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Hellerman, Steven L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691074474 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400824182 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400824182 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400824182.jpg |
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