篮球：美国篮球文化史

系列：美国方式
从篮球运动早期作为一项在19世纪城市中泛滥的年轻男子中建立“强健的基督教”的运动，到今天作为美国文化的全球象征的地位，篮球一直是美国社会的一股力量。它通过高中体育馆、大学动员大会和职业化的时断时续发展起来。这是一个游乐场游戏，一个城市游戏，与所有与城市文化有关的漫画相联系。它与种族的融合和表现作斗争。如今，篮球的影响力渗透到电影、音乐、舞蹈和时尚中。篮球讲述了体育运动与接受它的社会之间的互惠关系。虽然许多书都对这项运动的特定方面进行了颂扬，但托马斯·艾洛（Thomas Aiello）展示了这项运动的唯一当代文化史，从街头到职业男女比赛的最高水平。他认为，游戏与更广泛的文化存在着互惠关系，既体现了种族、阶级和性别的冲突，也为他们服务于一个国家的公共剧场。Aiello将比尔·拉塞尔、迈克尔·乔丹和科比·布莱恩特等文化偶像放在他们所处的时代背景下，并探讨了这项运动如何应对争议和丑闻。每一位对美国篮球史、体育史、种族史、城市生活史和流行文化感兴趣的读者都会把篮球放在书架上。
Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America
Series: American Ways
From its early days as a sport to build “muscular Christianity” among young men flooding nineteenth-century cities to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. It grew through high school gymnasiums, college pep rallies, and the fits and starts of professionalization. It was a playground game, an urban game, tied to all of the caricatures that were associated with urban culture. It struggled with integration and representations of race. Today, basketball’s influence seeps into film, music, dance, and fashion. Hoops tells the story of the reciprocal relationship between the sport and the society that received it. While many books have celebrated specific aspects of the game, Thomas Aiello presents the only contemporary cultural history of the sport from the street to the highest levels of professional mens and womens competition. He argues that the game has existed in a reciprocal relationship with the broader culture, both embodying conflicts over race, class, and gender and serving a s public theater for them. Aiello places cultural icons like Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, and Kobe Bryant in the context of their times and explores how the sport negotiated controversies and scandals. Hoops belongs on the bookshelf of every reader interested in the history of basketball, sports, race, urban life, and pop culture in America.

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