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The Art of Tifo - Identity, Representation, and Performing Fandom in Football/Soccer (Paperback, New edition)
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The Art of Tifo - Identity, Representation, and Performing Fandom in Football/Soccer (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Communication, Sport, and Society, 6
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Tifo refers to the artistic renderings that supporters at
football/soccer matches perform. This can involve large banners,
coordinated mosaic displays, and pyrotechnics. Originating in
Europe, the tradition has spread across the world and to other
sports. Tifos vary in size, content, and execution, but all emerge
from the desire supporters have for signaling and displaying their
collective community, specific identities, and extensive devotion
to their clubs. Fans fashion tifos to communicate publicly about
identity, sense of place, past success, politics, and heated
rivalries. Their assorted content makes tifos a distinctive form of
fan-generated communication. Traditionally, supporters display
tifos only momentarily before football/soccer matches. Yet they
have become increasingly complex, sophisticated, and
competitive-requiring dozens of people to create them, financial
investments usually from fans to procure the materials needed to
finance them, and on-site, in-stadium coordination to display them.
These factors contribute to a unique, complex, and globalized form
of fan communication that captures not only the obvious and
intended messages of tifos, but also demonstrates the effort and
devotion needed to execute them. This book examines the history and
evolution of tifos, their social significance for clubs, places,
and communities, the identities and associated affiliations they
discursively perform, and the explicit and implicit symbolism they
contain. Given the demanding practices surrounding the development
and execution of tifos, and their overall captivating nature, this
book should appeal to a broad audience including students and
scholars working in sport as well as fans of it.
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