- Title
- Sport, entertainment and the live(d) experience of cheering
- Creator
- Bicknell, Kath
- Relation
- Popular Entertainment Studies Vol. 2, Issue 1, p. 96-111
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Sport is readily thought of as entertainment in the context of both live events and individual practice. Both experiences are widely consumed, produce excitement, satisfaction and a great sense of fun among participants. This paper uses phenomenological and anthropological methods to look at the embodied relationship between athletes and cheering at cross-country mountain bike events to investigate the experience of sport — understood as both entertainment and skilled performance practice — by both athletes and spectators alike. This work also allows for better understandings of the rehearsal processes of other types of popular entertainment, such as circus or dance, which also have a rigorous physical component in their development and execution but may not have an audience as vocal or articulate during the time of the performance as that on the sporting field.
- Subject
- sport; entertainment; lived experience; Popular Entertainment Studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1472250
- Identifier
- uon:48799
- Identifier
- ISSN:1837-9303
- Rights
- © 2011 The Author.
- Language
- eng
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