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Cooperstown To Dyersville - A Geography Of Baseball Nostalgia (Hardcover)
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Cooperstown To Dyersville - A Geography Of Baseball Nostalgia (Hardcover)
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By what magic is a simple geographical space such as a city or town
transformed into cultural significance, into a "place" people
travel to, enshrine, mythologize, and consume? What stardust falls
upon the ground and in the public's mind that moves us to worship a
piece of property that was once an unremarkable field or vacant
lot? This book, written with the passion of both baseball fan and
cultural anthropologist, unravels the mysteries of Cooperstown, New
York-home of the Baseball Hall of Fame-and Dyersville, Iowa-site of
the baseball field made enormous by the Hollywood movie Field of
Dreams. Charles Springwood provides insight into the postmodern
culture of the United States in which tourist sites and "American
heritages" are culturally produced and consumed, by studying the
people who visit them. The results of his interviews with visitors
to these sites speak to issues of youth, innocence, family,
domesticity, nation, and the hegemonic practices of the "leisure
class." The book provides a reading of America steeped in
narratives of pastoralism and nostalgia. Behind it all (the curtain
behind which the great wizard sits) is the corporate mind creating
an atmosphere of false histories and reconstructed pasts.
Springwood pulls the reader's heart in two directions, seeking to
honor the beautiful myth of baseball's pastoralism through two
sacred geographical sites while also seeking to expose the
underpinnings of myth-making to a gentle but constant light.
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