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Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk - Mike Sielski - St. Martin's Press

Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk - Mike Sielski - St. Martin's Press

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Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk - Mike Sielski - St. Martin's Press


''The evolution of basketball, and much of the social and cultural change in America, can be traced through one powerful act on the court: the slam dunk. The dunk's history is the story of a sport and a country changed by the most dominant act in basketball. When basketball was the province of white men, the dunk acted as a revolutionary agent, a tool for players like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell to transform the sport into a Black man's game. The dunk has since been an expression of Black culture amid the righteous upheaval of the civil-rights movement, of the threat that Black people were considered to be to the establishment. It was banned from college basketball for nearly a decade--an attempt to squash the individual expression and athleticism that characterized the sport in America's cities and on its playgrounds. The dunk nevertheless bubbled up to basketball's highest levels. From Julius Erving to Michael Jordan to the high flyers of the 21st century, the dunk has been a key mechanism for growing the NBA into a global goliath.''--


Product Specs:
EAN/ISBN: 9781250287526

Contributor: Mike Sielski

Call Number: GV888.15

Dewey: 796.3232

Category: Dunking (Basketball) ; African American basketball players ; History ; Basketball ; Social aspects ; United States

Harmonized Code: 4901.99.0070

Publish Date: 02/11/2025

      

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