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Slowikowski, Synthia S. Rinehart, Robert Edward 2014-12-17T23:01:26Z 2014-12-17T23:01:26Z 10000-01-01 1993 1993 Four sporting milieus, The American Gladiators, the World Wrestling Federation, the 1992 Super Bowl, and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain are examined as cultural performances in this dissertation. Participant-observation was used, and ethnographies for each temporal site were produced. Sport-art relationships, especially drawing upon postmodern discourse, are examined. Additionally, a proposal for a change in the master sport narrative (e.g., as used in sport studies and popular culture), from that of sport-as-drama to that of sport-as-avant-garde, was advanced. In the ethnographies of the Super Bowl and the Summer Olympics, the subject matter is mirrored in the writing of the text. Finally, sport travel (and collecting and commoditization) as a necessary requisite for contemporary sport experience is noted and examined. Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T23:01:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 9329147.pdf: 9919784 bytes, checksum: 3fd41eec9d0066a59829ccdfd37eaa49 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1993 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 72666 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 210 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/72498 (UMI)AAI9329147 Health Sciences, Recreation """Been there, did that"": Contemporary sport performances" text Kinesiology Kinesiology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.