Sacred turf : the Wimbledon tennis championships and the changing politics of Englishness
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| Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Heiliger Rasen : die Tennismeisterschaften in Wimbledon und die sich verändernde Politik der Englishness |
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| Autor: | Wagg, Stephen |
| Erschienen in: | Sport in society |
| Veröffentlicht: | 20 (2017), 3 (Major sporting events: beyond the big two), S. 398-412, Lit. |
| Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
| Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
| Medienart: | Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISSN: | 1743-0437, 1743-0445, 1461-0981 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17430437.2015.1088726 |
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| Erfassungsnummer: | PU201810007599 |
| Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
This article is about ‘Wimbledon’, widely celebrated – not least in its own publicity material – as the world’s premier tennis tournament. It examines ‘Wimbledon’ essentially as a text (hence the inverted commas), viewed politically and historically. In this context, ‘Wimbledon’ is seen as a signifier of a certain kind of Englishness, carefully adapted to meet changing social and economic circumstance. Loose parallels are drawn between the cultural trajectory of ‘Wimbledon’ and that of the British royal family. The transmutations of ‘Wimbledon’ as a tennis championship are also seen as reflecting Britain’s decline as a world power during the twentieth century.