Skateboarding Between Subculture and the Olympics : : A Youth Culture under Pressure from Commercialization and Sportification /

Skateboarding Between Subculture and the Olympics : : A Youth Culture under Pressure from Commercialization and Sportification / / ed. by Veith Kilberth, Jürgen Schwier.

The inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercialization and sportification. Is the tightly-knit subculture in danger of losing its very identity?This anthology creates an analytical framework for understandi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2019 Part 2
MitwirkendeR:
Beal, Becky,
Bindel, Tim,
Bock, Katharina,
Borden, Iain,
Cantin-Brault, Antoine,
Colberg, Tait,
Ebeling, Kristin,
Kilberth, Veith,
Pick, Niklas,
Schweer, Sebastian,
Schwier, Jürgen,
Schäfer, Eckehart Velten,
HerausgeberIn:
Kilberth, Veith,
Schwier, Jürgen,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:KörperKulturen
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Physical Description:1 online resource (212 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Quo vadis Skateboarding?
  • Skateboarding between Subculture and Olympic Games
  • From Stairs to Podium
  • The Olympic Skateboarding Terrain between Subculture and Sportisation
  • Skatepark Worlds
  • Can You Sell Out if You've Never Been in?
  • No Comply. The Resilience of Skateboarding Culture
  • The Role of Online Media Content in Skateboard Culture
  • Sport Instead of Play
  • Skateboarding in Pedagogical Production
  • Lords of the Rings: Reasserting the Skateboarding Art at the Olympic Games
  • Authors

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