Clubs with popular libraries. Confluences between physical and intellectual culture in the capital of Buenos Aires’ province through the itinerary of the Ateneo Popular (1915-1944)
Urban expansion, demographic growth and the popularization of football resulted in a boom of sports clubs in La Plata during the first decades of the twentieth century. In addition to organising social and recreational events in the neighbourhoods where they were located, at least twenty clubs spons...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/41787 |
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| Sumario: | Urban expansion, demographic growth and the popularization of football resulted in a boom of sports clubs in La Plata during the first decades of the twentieth century. In addition to organising social and recreational events in the neighbourhoods where they were located, at least twenty clubs sponsored popular libraries around 1945. In this sense, these sports associations demonstratethe confluences between “physical culture” and “intellectual culture”. This article aims to explore these confluences and some of the challenges associated with popular libraries’ organization. The itinerary of Ateneo Popular club, founded in 1915 to play in the football league and which, at the same time, sponsored a library in line with the ideological current of Georgism, will allow us toanalyse this confluence. In particular, some challenges linked to the day-to-day running of Ateneo’s library, will be detected. Such challenges were shared by libraries founded in other La Plata’s clubs and were linked to the provision of a physical space, the bibliographic needs of the readership and the access to state support at national and provincial level. |
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