1987 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Fundamental Study of the Magazines of Sports and Physical Education in the Late Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Centuryin America,
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60580101
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
体育学
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| Research Institution | Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Dept. of P.E. |
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Principal Investigator |
OTAGIRI Kiichi Nara Womes's University, Faculty of Letters, Dept.of.P.E., 文学部教育学科, 助教授 (40093554)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1985 – 1987
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| Keywords | The magazines of sports and physical education / American sports history / Cultural phenomena andeducational phenomena of sport / 文化現象と教育(体育)現象 / スポーツ情報と体育情報 |
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| Research Abstract |
1. From the point of sport journalism, the publication of the magazines of sport and physical education in America came to have large volumes in the second half of 1870s. For about thirty years to the beginning of the twentieth century, one hundred fifty-six kinds of magazines were published.
2. These magazines can be divided roughly into two main classes: Single-sport or special-sport magazine and General-sport magazine. Single-sport or special-sport magazines can be divided in detail into (1)"horse and horse race"centered information, (2) "hunting and shooting" centered information, (3)"athletics" centered information,(4) "out-door activities"centered information,(5)"bicycle and automobile"centered information,(6)"physical education and training"centered information, and (7) "others"centered information.
3. The publication of single-sport or special-sport magazines correspond the social demand of readers in those days and closely related to prevalence of sport activities which require continual informations about each events.
4. General sports magazines also attracted attention of readers. In "Outing", a leading magazine in those days, the proportion of description about field-sports, athletic-sports and outdoor sports was three to one to two.
5. The magazine of physical education offered lots of informations about physical activity connected with education. These informations pervaded on general-sport magazines or general magazines which originally did not contain articles on sports as well.
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