O basquete de rua como manifestação da cultura corporal na cidade de Salvador

Abstract

The research deals with the Street Basketball, but to understand a very complex cultural expression is needed to point to the culture, its concept and possibility of transforming society. Because of many problems that face the people of Salvador in particular the people african descent, our main goal to identify and analyze the realities and contradictions of Street Basketball as body culture of african descent young population of Salvador , searching to find various elements for the consolidation of youth culture. The Physical Education brings basketball as one of the manifestations of body culture that undergo significant changes by those who practice and relates it in a playful manner. The basketball has been reinvented into American society, mainly blacks, who over the years has been interfering in its rules and ways to play, being called streetball, ie, street basketball. The street basketball is slowly transforming themselves in time and space as the population reference african descent, because of that, trying to corroborate the relationships of this phenomenon of sports for african descent collaborating with the inclusion of blacks in society, we think of action sports, which is one of the vehicles critical background of the concept of citizenship in the pursuit of human emancipation. Besides having its own language, have their meanings and meanings, is a mix of music and sport, play and play changing and producing new models and lifestyles. Therefore, we ask: What are the realities, contradictions and chances to overcome the Street Basketball as a cultural offering to the city of Salvador? The research is the city of Salvador and the sample that we use is the Square in downtown of Parrot and Garden Valentine's Waterfront in Salvador. For this, we conducted a qualitative study where we use the following instruments: a) A literature review on the banks of theses and literature on the subject, b), we made observations (photos, videos, notes), interviews, c) got data, systematize and we analyze the categories found d) engage in dialogue with the literature on the topic.