Baseball, Rituals, and the American Dream: An Analysis of the Boston Red Sox’s Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing

Bajorek, Benton James

dc.contributor.advisor	Innocenti, Beth
dc.contributor.author	Bajorek, Benton James
dc.date.accessioned	2020-03-16T20:30:26Z
dc.date.available	2020-03-16T20:30:26Z
dc.date.issued	2019-05-31
dc.date.submitted	2019
dc.identifier.other	http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16331
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30072
dc.description.abstract	In April 2013, the Tsarnaev brothers placed two homemade bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. This attack created a need for healing the city’s spirit and the Boston Red Sox played an essential role in the city’s recovery as the team invited victims and first responders to pregame ceremonies throughout the season to participate in ritualistic pregame ceremonies. This thesis examines the Red Sox first home game after the bombing and argues that ritualistic pregame ceremonies craft conditions for performing national citizenship identity by calling upon mythic belief systems to warrant norms of citizenship performance.
dc.format.extent	87 pages
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	University of Kansas
dc.rights	Copyright held by the author.
dc.subject	Rhetoric
dc.subject	American Dream
dc.subject	Boston Red Sox
dc.subject	hero
dc.subject	myth
dc.subject	ritual
dc.subject	sport
dc.title	Baseball, Rituals, and the American Dream: An Analysis of the Boston Red Sox’s Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing
dc.type	Thesis
dc.contributor.cmtemember	Harris, Scott
dc.contributor.cmtemember	Rowland, Robert
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline	Communication Studies
dc.thesis.degreeLevel	M.A.
dc.identifier.orcid
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess

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