British low culture : from safari suits to sexploitation / Leon Hunt.
Identifying 'permissive populism', the trickle down of permissiveness into mass consumption, as a key feature of the 1970s, Leon Hunt considers the values of an ostensibly 'bad' decade and analyses the implications of the 1970s for issues of taste and cultural capital. Hunt explo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Summary: | Identifying 'permissive populism', the trickle down of permissiveness into mass consumption, as a key feature of the 1970s, Leon Hunt considers the values of an ostensibly 'bad' decade and analyses the implications of the 1970s for issues of taste and cultural capital. Hunt explores how the British cultural landscape of the 1970s coincided with moral panics, the troubled Heath government, the three day week and the fragmentation of British society by nationalism, class conflict, race, gender and sexuality. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 191 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136189364 113618936X 9781315005126 1315005123 9781136189500 1136189505 9781136189432 1136189432 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |