Football and Oral History in Brazil

This book examines the popularity of football in Latin America and the importance of sound archives in a country in which orality is the basis of important social relations. The development of modern sports in the region is connected to wider national and state-building processes. In this sense, this volume aims to provide a historical overview of the making of the interface between these two important areas of social life in this main country of South American continent and its role in the cons