Everyone / Robert
This is interesting.
Do you know Alan Tomlinson`s work on Knur and Spell, working class
nineteenth-century golf, located especially around Sheffield and parts
of Yorkshire?
And has Golf become proletarianised and then, maybe shifted back awya
from that? I think golf is a good example of the greater complexity of
these things that is lost in the familiar polarisation- NOT to say that
this effaces any importance of power, control, and Rupert Murdoch, Nike
and Alex Ferguson. ...
David
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:25:50 +0100 Robert Polson
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> Everyone
>
> Whilst not pertaining specifically to geography Roger Hutchison did an
> interesting critique of the London Boat Race in a recent "West Highland Free
> Press". He made the point that the original boat race (I am not sure if it
> still is run) was for the "common" river users, whilst the media boat race
> is a class ridden institution.
>
> Also Mike Marqusee in "Anyone but England: cricket and the national malaise"
> (Verso 1994) and the late C L R James in his literary and sporting
> publications, for example: "Beyond a boundary" (Serpent's Tail 1994), point
> out how closely sport and trends in society are linked.
>
> James in his Marxist analysis of cricket led me into an interest in a game I
> still see as elitist and snobby, yet brought home to me how cricket "unites"
> widely separate groups sharing some of a common culture.
>
> Rob
>
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