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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807743203321

Autore

Long Paul <1967->

Titolo

Only in the common people : the aesthetics of class in post-war Britain / / by Paul Long

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

Newcastle, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2008

ISBN

1-282-04302-1

9786612043024

1-4438-0298-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

305.5094109085

Soggetti

Working class - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Great Britain Social conditions 20th century

Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century

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. [264]-293).

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

"corrupt and moronic though the common people are seemingly becoming ... only in the common people can the true work be rooted, the true tradition rediscovered and re-informed" Charles Parker, BBC Radio Producer 1959. In 1958, in his best-selling book Culture and Society, Raymond Williams identified working-class culture as 'a key issue in our own time'. Why this happened and how this subject was thought about and acted upon is the focus of this book. Paul Long investigates a variety of proj...