Highmore Lifestyle revolution

How taste changed class in late 20th-century Britain
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3298-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, which many thought would be dissolved by mass consumption, was remade in the postwar period from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines – as a world of symbolic goods became an intimate environment alive with new feelings and attitudes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Highmore, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Taste and tastemakers
2 Instant good taste: the Habitat story
3 The good life
4 Colour supplement living
5 Welcome to the village
6 Through the plateglass window
7 Status striving and other myths we live by
8 But isn’t that a class thing?
9 From the West Indian front room to Root
10 Adrian Mole, the future of taste, and me…
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Highmore is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His books include The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain (2017) and The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House (2014).