Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9780333726877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 241 str.

Jeffrey Hill;?Abar

Opis

From the perspective of the commercial, voluntary and state sectors of sport and leisure provision, this book examines a number of aspects of the social history of recreation. Among the topics explored are the development of spectator sports, the attractions of the cinema, the role of the press, radio and television, and the significance of sport and leisure clubs. The relationships of social class, gender and ethnicity that have affected the development of leisure are given prominence in an analysis which spans the whole of the 20th century.

Spis treści

Introduction: 'Free Time' in the 20th Century.- PART 1: COMMERCIAL SPORT AND LEISURE.- The 'Peculiar Economics' of the People's Games.- Going to the Pictures: America and the Cinema.- Mediating the Event: Sport and the Media.- PART 2: LEISURE, THE HOME AND VOLUNTARY ACTIVITY.- Leisure and the Home: Radio and Television.- Youth and the Problem of Leisure.- The Club Principle.- PART 3: PUBLIC POLICY: THE ROLE OF THE STATE.- State and Politics in Sport and Leisure.- From 'Rational Recreation' to 'Sport for All': The Place of the Municipality in Sport and Leisure.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

JEFFREY HILL is Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies, and Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, at De Montfort University,
Leicester. He has written on the British Labour Movement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, and on various aspects of sport and popular recreation in Britain.

Blurb

In Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain, Jeffrey Hill examines the social history of recreation, including: the development of spectator sports; the attractions of the cinema; tourism; the role of the media; the significance of clubs and societies. Commercial, voluntary and state "sectors" of sport and leisure provision are all included, and relationships of social class, gender and ethnicity in sport and leisure are given prominence in an analysis which spans the whole century.