This book provides an historical overview of the formation of sports media in Latin America and its role in the construction of the political history of Latin American sport. The sports press was a privileged observer of the development of modern sports, but it was also a key factor in the making of professional sports in Latin America. Most of the literature on sport in Latin America treats the sports press as an historical source, rarely taking it as an object of study in itself. However, the development of sports in the region is connected to national and state-building processes and the role of media narratives is crucial to understanding how sports participate in those processes. Spanning the globalization of football in the late nineteenth century to the shift promoted by television in the 1970s, the chapters survey the historical development of sports media in Latin America. Representing ten countries, the contributors follow a framework that presents the press not as a passive narrator of the sports phenomenon, but as a social agent of the sports field. This book is of use to those interested in the history of sports and the media, and it will be a good resource for undergraduates taking courses on Sports History, Latin American History, Sports Management, and Journalism and Communication.
Author(s): Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 208
City: London
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
Bibliography
Shaping the National Sports System: The Development of Argentinian Sports Press from the Leisure Society to the Era of Mass Culture (1890s–1950s)
Introduction
1890s–1910s: The First Steps of Sports Media Coverage in Argentina
British Sports for British People? The Original Limitations of Sports Practice and Press Coverage
Turning Sport into a Media Topic
The Sporting Press: A Mass Culture Cornerstone
El Gráfico, the “Bible” of the Sporting Press
Diversification and Specialisation of the Sporting Press
Success Keys: Business Models and the Role of the Sports Press
1940s–1950s: The Consolidation of The Sports Press Under The Peronist Era
Conclusions
References
The Spread of Football in Latin America, the First FIFA World Cup in Uruguay (1930) and the Role Mass Media Played
Uruguay at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
The New Century and Its New Politics
Football and the Press in the First Decade of the Twentieth Century
The Globalization of Football During the 1930 Crisis, the First World Championship in Uruguay and the Role of the Mass Media
The Difficult Task of Organizing the World Cup
Final Thoughts
References
Race and Gender in the Pages of the Brazilian Jornal dos Sports
Introduction
Mario Filho and Sports Journalism
Jornal dos Sports and the Black Man in Football
Women’s Football in Jornal dos Sports: 1940
Provisional Conclusions
References
De Los Sports a Triunfo: Sport Media in Chile During XX Century
The Oligarchic Stage of the Chilean Sports Press: The Case of Colo-Colo and Los Sports
The Developmental Vision of Sport in Estadio
Neoliberal Phase
Conclusions
References
‘Playing sport is building nation’: Issues of Colombian Football and Nation in the Magazines Estadio and Semana during the El Dorado Professional League (1948–1954)
Introduction
Sport, Press and Nation in Colombia pre-El Dorado
El Dorado: Popularity, Modernity and Benefits for the Nation
The National vs Foreign Player Quandary
Conclusion
References
Football, Ethnicity and the Visual Representations of Ecuadorian National Identity in Estadio
Introduction
Luxury for the (White)Mestizo Man
The Triumph of the Black Football Player: Alberto Spencer as a Hero on and off the Pitch
Conclusion
References
“The world united by a football …”: The Mexican Televisa and Their Football World Cups
Introduction
Brief Genealogy of an Empire: Televisa
The Venturing of Private Television into Mexican Football
Telesistema Mexicano, the 1970 Football World Cup, and the Mexican Fandom
A Tiger on the Hunt: Televisa’s 1986 World Cup
Conclusions
References
The Print Media and Sport Nationalism in the Caribbean: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago’s 1990 World Cup Campaign
Introduction
Background
Print Media and Sport Nationalism
Methodology
Findings
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Conclusion
Diversity and Plurality in the History of Sports Media
Media Outlet Case Studies as Building Blocks for General Conclusions
Difficulties with Concepts
Technological Change
New Directions
Remaining Questions
References
Index
