"""Been there, did that"": Contemporary sport performances"
Rinehart, Robert Edward
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Description
Title
"""Been there, did that"": Contemporary sport performances"
Author(s)
Rinehart, Robert Edward
Issue Date
1993
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Slowikowski, Synthia S.
Department of Study
Kinesiology
Discipline
Kinesiology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Health Sciences, Recreation
Abstract
Four sporting milieus, The American Gladiators, the World Wrestling Federation, the 1992 Super Bowl, and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain are examined as cultural performances in this dissertation. Participant-observation was used, and ethnographies for each temporal site were produced. Sport-art relationships, especially drawing upon postmodern discourse, are examined. Additionally, a proposal for a change in the master sport narrative (e.g., as used in sport studies and popular culture), from that of sport-as-drama to that of sport-as-avant-garde, was advanced. In the ethnographies of the Super Bowl and the Summer Olympics, the subject matter is mirrored in the writing of the text. Finally, sport travel (and collecting and commoditization) as a necessary requisite for contemporary sport experience is noted and examined.
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