TY - JOUR 
A1 - Rivero Herráiz, Antonio
AU - Sánchez García, Raúl
T1 - Sport versus bullfighting: the new civilising sensitivity of regenerationism and its effect on the leisure pursuits of the Spanish at the beginning of the 20th century
Y1 - 2016
SN - 09523367

UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/6490
AB - This article analyzes the influence of the new civilizing sensitivity
of the Spanish regenerationists in the introduction of sport, in
place of bullfighting, during the first third of the twentieth century.
Following the colonial collapse of the late nineteenth century and the
subsequent demoralization of the country, the regenerationists saw
in physical education and sport a way to reform the broken Spanish
population. Sport had arrived in Spain in the mid-nineteenth century
by way of the aristocracy and would then spread to the urban middle
classes, imbued with the reformist sense of the regenerationists. It
came in the form of amateur sport, with values of modernity and a
civilizing sensitivity which were diametrically opposed to activities
such as bullfighting that had such great support from the Spanish
public. Amongst the urban middle classes, sport developed as a
kind of amateur practice, used for the formation of a more civilized
character and the expression of individuality; on the contrary, amongst
the working classes, sport spread primarily in its professional form,
by way of mass spectator sports (football and boxing), representing a
civilizing spurt in severing the link between entertainment and death
which was central to bullfighting.
KW - Deportes - Aspectos sociales
KW - Deportes - Historia
KW - Deporte
KW - Sociología
KW - Historia
LA - eng
ER -