Modernidade, esporte e lazer na cidade da Parahyba do Norte – 1908-1925.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the City of North Parahyba between the years 1908 to 1925, focusing on the main aspects of the installation of modern equipment such as paving of streets, sanitation, running water, electric light, electric tram, parks, gardens and sports. With the acquisition of these improvements the ruling groups sought to insert themselves in a changing conception and affirmation of a modern way of living that projected them as bearers of values that distinguished the customs and practices of the inhabitants of the rural world process. For this, we use newspapers, magazines, official documents and images that express the relationship of social groups with such equipment causing them to go to the social imaginary as signs that symbolized modernity, realizing this relationship as these elements were received and represented in the everyday the social groups involved. This time, we will also use the sports practiced in Parahyba North as part of the arsenal of symbols used by parahybana society to fit into line with modern and civilized standards behavioral posture. Still show, as configured and social frames were built by sports practice and the relationships established in social clubs, precisely at Club Astrea and Cabo Branco. Thus, we can understand how they were configured leisure activities and fun in the capital in order to highlight the strategies adopted by the elites to have these practices.