Este trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa debruçada sobre o período da história do futebol brasileiro conhecido como crise do amadorismo, que atravessa as décadas de 1910 e 1920, até 1933, ano em que o futebol profissional se formaliza em São Paulo. O intuito desta investigação história consiste em identificar as origens de uma das maiores rivalidades do futebol brasileiro, o derby Corinthians e Palmeiras, à luz das dinâmicas sociais, econômicas e políticas envolvidas com o processo de profissionalização desse esporte que produzem seus maiores símbolos de desenvolvimento: os estádios. / This work is the result of a research bent over the period of the Brazilian football history known as \"crisis of amateurism\" that crosses the 1910s and 1920s, until 1933, the year that professional football is formalized in São Paulo. The purpose of this research is to identify the history origins of one of the greatest rivalries in Brazilian football, Corinthians and Palmeiras derby, in light of the dynamic social, economic and political involved with the process of professionalization of the sport they produce their greatest symbols of development: stadiums.

Este trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa debruçada sobre o período da história do futebol brasileiro conhecido como crise do amadorismo, que atravessa as décadas de 1910 e 1920, até 1933, ano em que o futebol profissional se formaliza em São Paulo. O intuito desta investigação história consiste em identificar as origens de uma das maiores rivalidades do futebol brasileiro, o derby Corinthians e Palmeiras, à luz das dinâmicas sociais, econômicas e políticas envolvidas com o processo de profissionalização desse esporte que produzem seus maiores símbolos de desenvolvimento: os estádios. / This work is the result of a research bent over the period of the Brazilian football history known as \"crisis of amateurism\" that crosses the 1910s and 1920s, until 1933, the year that professional football is formalized in São Paulo. The purpose of this research is to identify the history origins of one of the greatest rivalries in Brazilian football, Corinthians and Palmeiras derby, in light of the dynamic social, economic and political involved with the process of professionalization of the sport they produce their greatest symbols of development: stadiums.

<p>This dissertation traces the range of popular forms and practices associated with the harpsichord in the twentieth century in the United States, focusing on the 1950s, 60s and 70s. It draws on archives of period correspondence, sound recordings, and news clippings, as well as on my interviews with harpsichord builders and performers and on fieldwork I conducted at a prominent American harpsichord company during 2008. I argue that the harpsichord enabled practices and discourses through which the white middle class could critique the post-World War II United States, and that the material aspects of the harpsichord--its sound, its wooden materials and its construction methods--provided a gauge by which to measure how far the postwar everyday had veered from what was imagined to be an "authentic" human existence.</p> <p>I focus the dissertation around the influence of a particular narrative associated with the harpsichord: that of the aristocratic, delicate instrument decimated by the Industrial Revolution. I first chart the ways that this narrative circulated in academic histories and popular media during the twentieth century, and how it was linked to perceptions of the harpsichord's physical "shortcomings." Focusing on its career in 1940s-60s popular music recordings, I then show how the stereotype of its "tragically disadvantaged" sound shaped acoustic and discursive constructions of that sound. I continue by demonstrating the classed critiques surrounding the instrument's commodification as a "do-it-yourself" kit--an affordable product that seemed to contradict the instrument's history as an elite, custom-made object. Lastly, I show how the harpsichord's story articulated with the biographies and sentiments of specific people, particularly those affiliated with the shop of Massachusetts harpsichord builder Frank Hubbard in late 1960s and early 1970s. Ultimately, I argue that the Movement's ideal of "historical authenticity," along with the post-World War II mass appeal of period instruments and period performance practice, emerged out of time and place-specific meanings, and through multiple social and commodity networks.</p> / Dissertation

The thesis analyses the amateur game of rugby union by focussing upon the struggles for control between national and local unions and players. Using historical material and interviews with administrators, current players in the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, and Canterbury, a local provincial union, I show how the game of rugby union consolidated as the national game. I follow these actors through the shift to a global professional game sponsored by television networks and show how the local advantages in the New Zealand game come to be reconfigured in this context.

The aim of this dissertation is to study the conditions of and changes in sociative democracy processes at club level. One sports club is studied, Örebro Sportklubb (ÖSK), from its foundation in 1908 up to 1989. The main sources are club minutes, member magazines and annual reports. Democracy, and its twofolded relation to sport and economy processes, is the main problem area of the study. The specific question is how aspirations for economic effectiveness and sporting success influenced the democracy processes in ÖSK between 1908 and 1989. The Swedish sports movement has been described as a democratic movement. But the same movement has also been portrayed as an undemocratic movement made of men, for men. The study is based on a broad understanding of the democracy concept where issues of representativeness, influence, participation and knowledge are prominent. At a club level, the study is analysing the contents of the Swedish sports movement's democracy and its change during the 1900s. The thesis also illustrates how the pursuit of economic efficiency affected the associative democracy. These efficiencies were visible already in the 1920s, but was deepened during the 1970s. In short, the democratic range decreased, and successful sections became less and less motivated to finance the deficits of other sections. But the increased market orientation did not only represent a threat to the associative democracy. Marketisation and commercialization also preconditioned the democracy. At the club arena (Eyravallen), the members met in the clubhouse and café which, in turn, deepened the social capital and friendships within the club.

In this essay I will show the changes and continuity expressed in the official journal for the Swedish sports movement, Svensk Idrott. More precisely, the purpose of this essay is to investigate how the ideals of the Swedish sports movement changed or remained the same during the period 1929-1979. To further enable me to answer this my questions are as follows: What goals does the journal wish to achieve? Which groups and persons do they want to reach? How do they wish to work to achieve this? My material is the official journal for the Swedish sports movement Svensk Sport. It was a journal founded in 1929 with the expressed purpose of showing the work, goals and other aspects of Riksidrottsförbundet as well as to promote the sports movement. It eventually ended in 2013, but I have chosen to end my investigation of it in 1979 due to economic changes that caused the sports world as a whole to drastically change. My results are that due to economical and ideological changes related to commercialisation, amateuristic ideals and a democratic and feministic push within the larger people's movement changed Svensk Sport from a journal propagating amaturistic ideals with the man in focus to a journal propagating a sports for all people with less hostility to sports as a career choice.

This dissertation contributes to music scene and online community studies. It is an historical examination of the CBLocals music scene in the summer of 2006. This scene is located in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, and the website with which its participants identify. This study analyzes the CBLocals website as a cultural infrastructure of a music scene and thus positions itself to advance pre-Internet arguments about scenes. This dissertation argues that on the one hand, the Internet changes how music scenes function by increasing accessibility and mobility. On the other hand, it has left the social composition and ideological outlook of music scenes unchanged. Users celebrate the medium's possibilities and what the CBLocals website has brought to their scene. They also feel nostalgia for the practices they feel their scene has lost along the way. The result is that the most significant consequence of CBLocals.com and the Internet on the music scene is a feeling of ambivalence in its participants. In the second and third chapter, I demonstrate how local context still greatly affects the representation of the CBLocals scene. In Chapter Two, I analyze the social composition of CBLocals based on race, gender, region, class, sexuality and age. I conclude that this social composition is unaffected by technological advances. In Chapter Three, I analyze discussions of "selling out" within the scene. I conclude that regional perspectives of state-supported professionalism in music and arts inform discussions on "selling out" that are specific to the CBLocals community. The fourth chapter explores the CBLocals users' perceptions of the website and messageboard. Users celebrate a variety of benefits, such as an interactive forum, the social lubrication provided by online gossip and the ease of promoting music online. However, many users dislike what they see as the erosion of work ethic and standards of discourse that have occurred in the Internet age. These mixed emotions reflect the ambivalence resulting from the celebration of possibilities and the nostalgia emergent with new technology.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-165). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-165).

The aim of this thesis is to approach the cultural life of the small town in the 19. century, which was based on activities of artistic and entertainment societies. Defined period maps the most successful era of the societies, by that is possible to find a contemporary mentality of the citizens of Milevsko. Because of the increased interest about this topic, this research could be a comparative element for another scholars. Concept of this thesis is focused on three most active societies Beseda, Čtenářsko-ochotnická jednota and Vlastislav. The first part of the thesis contains a description of used methods and sources and literature. Research continues by the chapter about general association in the Czech lands, evolution of the term "Society" and history of Milevsko in the 19. and 20. centuries. This particular research is dealing with the activities of chosen societies and follows their history - first as a whole and then individually. Thesis is focused especially on cultural activities, which were connected with the citizens and that's why there is hardly any description of changes in the committees or internal official agendas. At the end, there is a short analysis of working of political control of cultural activities in Milevsko by the local Vedení veřejné osvětové služby and a chapter about the feedbacks of society's activities in the local periodics.