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October 5, 1999
The Rain Barrel Extremely
Digestible Bibliography
today's subject:
Hockey
| TITLE: |
The Stanley Cup of Hockey
and suicide in Quebec, 1951-1992 |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Trovato,-Frank |
| SOURCE: |
Social-Forces. v. 77
no1 Sept. 1998 p. 105-26 |
| ABSTRACT: |
Social integration theory
would view the Stanley Cup of Hockey series as a ceremonial occasion capable
of promoting a temporary drop in the incidence of suicide. This proposition
is combined with a key postulate of routine activities theory-- that people
who share similar backgrounds, lifestyles, and interests are inclined to
get together in social activities, including in this case watching playoff
hockey. It is proposed that the social context surrounding the Stanley
Cup constitutes in Quebec a period of increased informal interpersonal
contact among the people, and that this should ultimately serve to discourage
and/or prevent some potential suicides from occurring. In situations where
this type of social context breaks down during the course of the hockey
series, suicide is expected to increase temporarily. The analysis reveals
that the period comprising the Stanley Cup is by itself not a significant
predictor of suicide, though its interactions with sex, age, and marital
status are important. During the playoffs (as opposed to other times of
the year) young men are in fact more likely to commit suicide, but if they
are married, the chances of this happening are reduced significantly. Further
analysis indicates that the increased tendency for young men to commit
suicide during the hockey series is associated with the situation of when
Montreal are ousted early from the competition. The causal mechanisms
for this effect are explicated in terms of a premature breakdown of the
informal social context associated with the playoffs experience. These
results and other features of this study are discussed in relation to previous
research regarding sports and mortality. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Suicide-; Sports-Social-aspects;
Social-integration; Hockey-Professional-Canada; Quebec-Province-Social-history |
| TITLE: |
Post-, "Grapes," nuts
and flakes: Coach's corner as post-colonial performance |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Knowles,-Richard-Paul |
| SOURCE: |
Modern-Drama. v. 38
Spring 1995 p. 123-30 |
| ABSTRACT: |
Part of a special issue
on postcolonialism. A discussion of "Coach's Corner" as postcolonial
performance. This program, which takes place in the intermission between
the first and second periods of telecast hockey games on Canada's national
television network, features Don Cherry, the former coach of the Boston
Bruins, and is hosted by Ron MacLean. Cherry's aggressively bad grammar
and championing of old-fashioned and unfashionable causes have made for
much of the show's popularity as well as its controversial quality. In
terms of Canadian postcolonial analysis, Cherry seems to serve as a site
at which a counter-hegemonic postcolonial nationalism focuses, but his
performance can also be read as that of a particularly complex colonial
dummy and a virtual object lesson in the dangers of such nationalism.
Ultimately, Cherry represents as absurd, pitiable, or quaint the pretensions
of a colonial subject to speak without mimicry in a voice of one's own. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Cherry,-Don; Television-programs-Sports;
Postcolonialism-; Performance-theory; Nationalism-Canada; Television-programs-Canada |
| TITLE: |
Perfectly normal: queer
opera in Canada |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Hepburn,-Allan |
| SOURCE: |
Canadian-Theatre-Review.
no96 Fall 1998 p. 34-8 |
| ABSTRACT: |
A discussion of queer
opera in Canada. The queer sensibility of the comic opera The Loves
of Wayne Gretzky is predicated on the possible merging of unlikely cultural
endeavors. The opera records a Canadian fantasy of the compatability
between culture and sport. The homosocial subtext of hockey players'
off-ice familiarity resembles the intimacies of the erotic pursuits and
frustrations of onstage operatic actors. Whereas the operas Mario
and the Magician and Elsewhereless withhold happy fates from gay characters,
The Loves of Wayne Gretzky contrives to satisfy everyone, at least libidinally.
It demonstrates that queer opera flourishes in the locker room as much
as it has always flourished in the hearts of fans. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Homosexuality-and-opera;
Opera-Canada;
Opera-Psychological-aspects |
| TITLE: |
Sporting black |
| SOURCE: |
Psychology-Today. v.
30 Jan./Feb. 1997 p. 22 |
| ABSTRACT: |
A recent study found
that pro hockey teams who wore black uniforms incurred 6 percent more penalties
over a four-year period than teams in colorful attire. According
to psychologists Alan Reifman and Neil McGillicuddy of the Research Institute
on Addiction, in Buffalo, referees are more likely to notice infractions
made by players dressed in black. Moreover, dark uniforms seem to
increase players' aggression, resulting in
well-deserved penalties
for hostile acts. Previous studies have shown, however, that subtle factors
such as color have less influence on everyday behavior when people are
in a high-pressure situation. Thus, the researchers were not surprised
to learn that color made no difference once a hockey team reached the finals
of the Stanley Cup. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Hockey-; Color-Psychological-aspects;
Uniforms-;
Aggression-Psychology |
| TITLE: |
Blood on the ice: status,
self-esteem, and ritual injury among Inuit hockey players |
| AUTHOR(S): |
Collings,-Peter; Condon,-Richard-G |
| SOURCE: |
Human-Organization.
v. 55 Fall 1996 p. 253-62 |
| ABSTRACT: |
Since the 1970s, the
pace of social, economic, and political change has accelerated throughout
the Canadian Arctic. In the Copper Inuit community of Holman, change has
been accompanied by an increase in recreational facilities and activities
organized by the local Hamlet Council and paid for by the Government of
the Northwest Territories. Recreational involvement, primarily in the form
of competitive team sports like hockey, provides a valuable outlet for
Inuit teenagers and young adults who find it difficult to adjust to the
new northern social order. This article examines the most visible
of these sports--hockey--and discusses the effects that game involvement,
violence, and ritualization of injury have upon young men's sense of control,
status, and self-esteem. |
| DESCRIPTORS: |
Sports-Social-aspects;
Hockey-players-Psychology;
Eskimos-Recreation;
Sports-Accidents-and-injuries |
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