Offside : soccer and American exceptionalism /
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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2001.
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| Serier: | Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s3xd |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- The argument: sports as culture in industrial societies- American conformities and exceptions
- The formation of the American sport space: "crowding out" and other factors in the relegation and marginalization of soccer
- Soccer's trials and tribulations: beginnings, chaos, "almosts", obscurity, and colleges
- The formation and rearrangement of the American sport space in the second half of the twentieth century
- From the North American Soccer League to Major League Soccer
- The World Cup in the United States
- The coverage of World Cup '98 by the American media and the tournaments's reception by the American public.