Meaning of ludophilia | Babel Free

Definitions

The love of play.

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Examples

“[…] based on sicalipsis, with their tastelessness, petty subjects and immodest exhibition of female beauties, became a fitting artistic formula for the hedonism, ludophilia, escapism, and consumerism of the years just prior to the Great War, an atmosphere well reflected in stage⟳ settings similar to the ones displayed on the grand avenues and boulevards of the main European […]”

“Chapter 3 examines the racial and class politics of musical play⟳ as they are manifested in negotiations among the postcommunist state, the European Union, the global music industry, and Roma minority groups. The argument foregrounds a disavowed register⟳ of European nationalisms: the moral majority’s ludophilia toward “lazy” and “unproductive” Gypsies. Evoking Stuart Hall’s theorization of the playful Caribbean cultural identities, the chapter discusses Roma Rap, […]”

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