Real Madrid and the origin of football as mass’ spectacle, 1923-1936
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Football, spectacles, press, radio, cinema, politics.
Abstract
The origin of football’s passion became in the 1920’s and 1930’s, period in which sport made professional. Real Madrid, with its victories in Spanish’ Cup and League, was one of the teams that contributed to the consolidation of sports as spectacle. Mass media, as press, radio and cinema, showed this diffusion of football. The increase of the sportive spectacle was as the same time that people claimed for a bigger participation in the public affairs. Mass leisure lived together with politic mobilization, it wasn’t an instrument to dominate people.Downloads
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Published
2012-11-16
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Báez y Pérez de Tudela J. M. (2012). Real Madrid and the origin of football as mass’ spectacle, 1923-1936. Historia y Comunicación Social, 17, 159-180. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_HICS.2012.v17.40604
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