Bleacher Bugs and Fifty-Centers: The Social Stratification of Baseball Fans through Stadium Design, 1880–1920

IF 0.2 4区艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE

Buildings & Landscapes-Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI:10.5749/buildland.28.1.0005

P. Carlino

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Abstract

abstract:Between 1860 and 1920, Americans grappled with the demographic and political changes of modernization. American baseball-team owners used furniture selection and arrangement to invite upperand middle-class native-born white men and women to the center of spectatorship and to marginalize nonwhite, immigrant, and working-class fans. Owners installed a new type of seating, the opera chair, to tame rowdy male audiences and protect the bodies of white women who attended frequent ladies' days. In newspapers, owners and sportswriters stereotyped spectators by seating section. Fans embraced, and at times resisted, the status imposed upon them through stadium design. A close reading of the interior landscape recorded in newspaper descriptions and photographs reveals spaces divided into hierarchical groups designed to assuage the anxieties of bourgeois white audiences. Professional baseball teams invited all into communal spectatorship to watch the national game, but segregated fans in pursuit of profit.

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看台虫和五十中心:棒球球迷的社会分层通过体育场设计，1880-1920

1860年至1920年间，美国人努力应对现代化带来的人口和政治变化。美国棒球队的老板们利用家具的选择和安排，邀请中上阶层的本土出生的白人男女来到观众的中心，并将非白人、移民和工人阶级的球迷边缘化。老板们安装了一种新型的座位——歌剧椅，以驯服吵闹的男性观众，并保护经常参加女士日的白人女性的身体。在报纸上，老板和体育记者通过座位划分对观众形成刻板印象。球迷们欣然接受，有时也会抵制这种通过球场设计强加给他们的地位。仔细阅读报纸描述和照片中记录的室内景观，就会发现空间被划分为等级群体，旨在缓解资产阶级白人观众的焦虑。职业棒球队邀请所有人到公共场所观看全国比赛，但为了追求利润，将球迷隔离开来。

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期刊介绍： Buildings & Landscapes is the leading source for scholarly work on vernacular architecture of North America and beyond. The journal continues VAF’s tradition of scholarly publication going back to the first Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture in 1982. Published through the University of Minnesota Press since 2007, the journal moved from one to two issues per year in 2009. Buildings & Landscapes examines the places that people build and experience every day: houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls. The journal’s contributorsundefinedhistorians and architectural historians, preservationists and architects, geographers, anthropologists and folklorists, and others whose work involves documenting, analyzing, and interpreting vernacular formsundefinedapproach the built environment as a windows into human life and culture, basing their scholarship on both fieldwork and archival research. The editors encourage submission of articles that explore the ways the built environment shapes everyday life within and beyond North America.