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The invention of the beautiful game [electronic resource] :football and the making of modern Brazil / Gregg Bocketti.

By: Bocketti, Gregg [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813055794; 0813055792.Subject(s): Soccer -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- History | Soccer players -- Brazil -- History | Soccer -- Brazil -- History | Brazil -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 796.3340981 Online resources: Full text available:
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.
Scope and content: "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 (the beautiful game), in the twentieth century and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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 (the beautiful game), in the twentieth century and beyond"--Provided by publisher.

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