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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453118603321

Autore

Bampilis Tryfon

Titolo

Greek whisky [[electronic resource] ] : the localization of a global commodity / / by Tryfon Bampilis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013

ISBN

0-85745-878-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

Food, nutrition, and culture ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

394.1/309495

Soggetti

Whiskey - Social aspects - Greece

Whiskey industry - Greece

Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Greece

National characteristics, Greek

Electronic books.

Greece Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Note on Transliteration; Preface; Introduction: The Social Life of Whisky; Chapter 1 - The Imported Spirits Industry in Greece; Chapter 2 - Dreams of Modernity: Imagining the Consumption of Whisky during the Golden Age of Greek Cinema; Chapter 3 - ""Keep Walking"": Whisky Marketing and the Imaginaries of Scale Making in Advertising; Chapter 4 - The Social Life of Whisky in Athens: Popular Style, Night Entertainment, and Bouzoukia with Live Greek Popular Music; Chapter 5 - The Location of Whisky in the North Aegean

Conclusion - Trajectories of Scotch Whisky, Realms of LocalizationReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In many contexts of Greek social life, Scotch whisky has coincidentally become a symbol of "Greekness," national identity, modernity, and the middle class. This ethnographic study follows the social life of Scotch in Greece through three distinct trajectories in time and space in order to investigate how the meanings of the beverage are projected, negotiated, and acquired by various different networks. By examining the mediascapes of the Greek cultural industry, the Athenian nightlife



and entertainment, and the North Aegean drinking habits, the study illustrates how Scotch became associated w