Mercantilização do lazer no Brasil

Abstract

This article presentsa meditation about the historical development of the commercialization of leisure in Brazil. The commercialization has beenpointed here as one of the most important aspects for the historical rising of the leisure. Inaddition, the article support that the commercialization of the leisure in Brazilhappened before the decade of 1960, time usually indicated as chronologicalmarkfor this process. More important, all this long historical development process of the leisure in Brazil before the decade of 1960 was determinantto the waysand the format of the commercialization of the leisurein the country.