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Lifestyle Revolution - How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Lifestyle Revolution - How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the
class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone
had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned
their own homes. They were to be proved hopelessly wrong. Lifestyle
revolution charts how class culture, rather than being destroyed by
mass consumption, was remade from flat-pack furniture,
Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines. Novelists,
cartoonists and playwrights satirised the tastes of the emerging
middle classes, while sociologists claimed that an entire
population was suffering from 'status anxiety', but underneath it
all, a new order was being constructed out of duvets, quiches and
mayonnaise, easy chairs from Habitat, white emulsion paint and
ubiquitous pine kitchen tables. More than just a world of symbolic
goods, this was an intimate environment alive with new feelings and
attitudes. -- .
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