Event overview
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A presentation and discussion of sport, culture and the creation of national identities in Brazil and Argentina.
During Brazil’s 2014 World Cup finals, Argentine fans popularized a chant that stated “Brazil, tell me how it feels”. The chant became viral, and produced a Brazilian response, “Argentina, me diz que se sente”: both discussed relationship of rivalry by joking at the other’s expenses. These chants were based on a melody from ‘Bad Moon Rising’ released by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1969, possibly before the birth of those who chanted these words in support of their teams.
Pablo Alabarces, professor at the University of Buenos Aires, will be discussing the relationship between popular music and football chants, focusing on the uses of popular music and global pop at the World Cups from 1962 to now. This discussion will also cover the self-presentation of the “local” (national) fans before a globalized media scene and the role of sport icons and heroes in the construction of national epics, with both Maradona and Messi featuring in the most recent examples from the 2014 World Cup.
This discussion will illustrate that contemporary football culture must be described and interpreted in the combination of surfaces and materials, and in the continuous intersection of local texts, fans’ practices and global events. In doing so Dr Alabarces will present analysis of different practices and representations from all the actors involved in the global contemporary football scene: fans, mass culture, media and football heroes.
Pablo Alabarces is professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (where he chaired the Doctorate Programme from 2004 until 2010) and Principal Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET); he has created and coordinated the Popular Cultures Studies Group and the Sport and Society Working Group (CLACSO, 1999-2002). His research in popular cultures (including studies about popular music, youth cultures, and football cultures) is highly regarded in Latin America, where he is considered one of the founders of the sociology of sport. Slected publications: Fútbol y Patria (2002), Hinchadas (2005, editor) Resistencias y mediaciones. Estudios sobre cultura popular (2008, editor), Peronistas, populistas y plebeyos. Crónicas de cultura y política (2011) and Héroes, machos y patriotas. El fútbol entre la violencia y los medios (2014).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 5 Apr 2016 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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