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Paino, Troy D. "The End of Nostalgia: A Cultural History of Indiana High School Basketball During the Progressive Era," American Studies Program, Michigan State University, February 1997.
High school basketball became a way for people to imagine community during a time of great change. In towns scattered throughout predominantly rural and homogeneous Indiana, excitement over the new sport of basketball acted as a centripetal force in the face of emerging centrifugal social, economic, and political forces. Witnessing the dawn of an urban and industrial world that threatened their sense of order, people of divergent socio-economic groups believed high school basketball acted as common ground in a search for community. In their support of high school basketball, people created a culture that was at once compliant with and resistant to efforts at social control by social reformers, educators, and industrialists.
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