Driving ambitions : an analysis of the American hot rod enthusiasm

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Driving ambitions : an analysis of the American hot rod enthusiasm

H.F. Moorhouse

(International studies in the history of sport)

Manchester University Press , Distributedexclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

A survey of American motor sports over the last 50 years, covering "hot rod" motor racing (including the growth of "Hot Rod Magazine") and the development of the car as a major element in American culture. It treats sports consumption and enthusiasms as a serious subject for social analysis.

目次

  • The automobile and social analysis - theoretical perspectives
  • the early hot rod sports - the lakes and the streets
  • "Hot Rod Magazine" and the creation of drag racing
  • the development of drag racing and the early hot rod economy
  • sporting politics - fuel, professionalism and associations
  • sporting politics - big business and the state
  • ideologies in the enthusiasm - the work ethic
  • - an all-American way
  • drag racing in the 1980s - running into troubles
  • the shut down.

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