The Early Evolution of Modern Sport in Latin America

A Mainly English Middle-Class Inspiration

Bibliographic Data

ID12219802
AuthorsJ A Mangan (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume18
Issue3
Pages9-42
Publication date2001-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/714001585
PMID18193573
OpenAlexW1999718077
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In any consideration of cultural diffusion, what matters is not only what happens to a cultural form when it arrives, but that it arrives. In the twentieth century, Latin America, like too many other areas of the world, has been a place of diplomatic turmoil, social inequality, political paranoia, capitalist exploitation and class conflict. However, despite all this, and through all this, it may be stated factually and without sentimentality, that it has also been a place where people have survived and thrived, worked, loved and played. Modern sport has brought to their play both unhappy moments of disillusion and disappointment and marvellous opportunities for illusion and pleasure. Modern sport, with its beauty spots and warts, is the reality and while there are things to criticize, there are also many things to applaud. Along with others, the English middle class played a not insignificant part in the arrival of modern sport in Latin America

Aesthetics · Art · Class conflict · Disappointment · Illusion · Latin Americans · Middle class · Paranoia · Political science · Politics · Sentimentality · Sociology · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports and Physical Education Studies · Sports, Gender, and Society

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