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CONTRIBUIÇÃO ESPECIAL • Estud. hist. (Rio J.) 32 (68) • Sep-Dec 2019 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S2178-149420190003000009   copy

THE NORTHEAST PLAYS FOOTBALL, TOO: WORLD CUP SOCCER AND REGIONAL IDENTITY IN THE BRAZILIAN NORTHEASTi i The research for this article was funded by a Summer Research Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University and an Institute of International Education Graduate Fellowship for International Study administered by Fulbright Brazil. The final product was greatly influenced by feedback given generously at the Grupo de Trabalho 09 “Esporte e Sociedade” of the 36º Encontro Anual da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais in Águas de Lindóia, São Paulo, in 2012; at the Rethinking Sport in the Americas Workshop at Emory University in 2013; and, at the Society for Latin American Studies event in Southampton in 2018. I thank the donors and institutions mentioned above for the generous funding and the organizers and participants at these events. In addition, I express thanks to Marshall C. Eakin, Ty West, Celso Castilho, Eddie Wright-Rios, Lesley Gill, Paula Covington, Joshua Nadel, Túlio Velho Barreto, Santiago Quintero, Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, and Maria Carolina Morais for feedback on previous versions.

O Nordeste também joga futebol: a Copa do Mundo e a identidade regional no Nordeste brasileiro

El Nordeste también juega fútbol: el Mundial y la identidad regional en el Nordeste brasileño

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ABSTRACT

This article examines how ideas about northeastern regional identity circulated in discussions of World Cup football. It first presents the preparations of and discussion around the 1950 World Cup match between Chile and the United States in Recife. Then, it analyzes attention given to World Cup football by regionalist intellectuals and artists, including musicians, clay artists, poets, and authors of cordel literature. This analysis shows that World Cup football provided a space within which the terms of regional (and national) identity were contested and debated, emphasizing the multivalence of regional discourse.

Palavras-chave:
Football; Regional identity; Popular art; World Cup 1950

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