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- Title
OLYMPIC ARTS.
- Authors
Stevenson, Deborah
- Abstract
The charter-of the International Olympic Committee prescribes that a `fine ails' event be held in conjunction with the sporting programme as an equally important aspect of the official Olympic Games calendar. As part of the staging of the 2000 Olympic Games, the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Gaines is responsible for organizing and staging a `cultural' programme. Despite its centrality to the charter and ideals of the Olympic movement, the Cultural Olympiad has been greatly overshadowed by the frenetic nationalism, spectacle and media hype which surrounds the sporting events. This article sets out to explore the Sydney 2000 Cultural Olympiad in the context of the contending political agendas which are shaping the proposed programme. Also considered briefly are the discourses of identity -- local, national and global -- that will be mobilized, contested and defamed through this festival of Olympic arts.
- Subjects
SYDNEY (N.S.W.); NEW South Wales; OLYMPIC Games; INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee (IOC); OLYMPIC Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.); NATIONALISM; SPORTS
- Publication
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 1997, Vol 32, Issue 3, p227
- ISSN
1012-6902
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1012690297032003001