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'The people's amusement': the growth in cinema-going and reading habits -- 'Fouling civilisation?: official attitudes towards popular film and literature -- Trade attitudes towards audience taste -- 'What made you put that rubbish on?': national trends in film popularity -- 'The appearance as an added incentive': national trends in literature popularity -- 'A very profitable enterprise': South Wales Miners' Institutes -- 'Gunmen, rustlers and a damsel in distress': working-class tastes in Derby -- 'The home of the brave"? working -class tastes in Portsmouth -- Popular film and literature: textual analyses -- Conclusion: 'giving the public what it wants'

"Taste is a core concept for the social sciences and an orienting notion in everyday practice. It is of equal relevance to academics and laypeople alike. Theorizations of taste are frequently multi- disciplinary, bringing an opportunity to cross-fertilize ideas and concepts. At the same time, a reader, challenged by the diverse body and dispersed nature of theories on taste, needs guidance navigating the literature and framing areas of interest. Until now, those interested in an academic perspective on the concept have had to traverse a wide range of literature. This is the first book that assembles a range of writings on taste from across disciplines to provide the reader with a sense of the emerging and expanding boundaries of this field of study. Taste, Consumption and Markets offers a comprehensive and up-to-date review of taste, with an emphasis on how taste shapes boundaries, subcultures, and global culture, complemented by an introduction that provides a scaffold for the reader and a concluding section that reflects on the past, present, and future of research on taste. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics, and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regard to the sociology of taste and consumption and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of consumer studies, consumption ethics, sociological perspectives on consumption, and cultural studies"--

Discussed literature: . "auf den Geschmack gekommen. Sechs Monate Streik bei Gate Gourmet," (Getting the taste of it. Six months on strike at Gate Gourmet), by Flying Pickets. The Gate Gourmet strike at Dusseldorf airport has been particular in the following ways: it has been the longest in German history; over half of the striking persons concerned were of foreign origin; and the "power to the people" concept that was magnified in a Just-in-Time context. O. van Zijl

Within its wide boundaries, culture creates written and visual reflection areas for itself. As the reflection area expands through time, space and nature, it becomes richer, and, in doing so, it needs to be appreciated. The cultural reflection of historical accumulation leaves us in front of an immense mirror. In general terms, this book presents the reader with the intertwined relationships between culture and literature, culture and language, and culture and history or art history. More specifically, it investigates the joy of a birth, a funeral ritual, the merriness of a melody, and the taste of a meal as they are reflected within the texts that Asia has accumulated throughout its history. Its central concern is the investigatation of issues related to culture and how it is reflected in literature, language, or history in a particular place. --

"Between Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursileria -- a form of bad taste that expresses a sense of social marginalization -- is used to represent key social conflicts and contradictions of modernity in Mexico. Combining perspectives from queer theory, humor theory, and Latin American cultural studies, Bisbey looks at a corpus of canonical and lesser-known texts that treat a range of topics relevant to contemporary discussions of gender, sexuality, race, and human rights in Mexico--including sex work, transvestitism, bisexuality, same-sex marriage, racism, classism, and homophobic and transphobic violence"--

"This book considers how contemporary British children's books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain's imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. In this conception, the insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power relations in recent children's novels reveals significant tensions, or even contradictions, with regards to the fictional treatment of race relations and ethnicity. Postcolonial children's literature in Britain is shown to have been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is seen as both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. The author examines the ways in which children's fictions have challenged dominant structures of power and imperial ideologies while sometimes straddling the border between subversion and an uneasy complicity. The texts analysed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By examining the ideological content of these novels, the author demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary British writing for the young.Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature combines a critical survey of contemporary British writing for children and young adults with the central concerns of postcolonial studies. It reveals complex engagements with questions of national identity, cultural hybridity, decolonization, and diasporic culture within contemporary British children's literature"--

This book presents an unusual view on one of the most influential periods in world economic history: the Early Globalization. By this term, the notion that a process of genuine globalization took place in the Early Modern Era is defended. The authors propose that the canonical globalization—that of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—was preceded by a century-long increasing economic integration between continents that were non-existent before 1492. The economic aspects of the Early Globalization, like market integration, price co-movements and international silver circulation, were very important. Notwithstanding, other dimensions of human life, which were affected by unprecedented intercontinental contacts, including free and forced migrations, changes in tastes and consumption, etc. The Fruits of Globalisation deals with some of the most important issues among the former and the latter. The book combines approaches from different disciplines, including quantitative and non-quantitative economic history, econometrics, international trade and demography. Overall, the vision of the Early Globalisation offered in this book is less pessimistic than in mainstream literature on the period.

The Sephardic communities of Latin America: a puzzle of subethnic fragments, / Margalit Bejarano -- Nuevos mundos halló colón, or, what's different about Sephardic literature in the Americas? / Edna Aizenberg -- Sephardic and Syrian immigration to America: acculturation and communal preservation / Jane Gerber -- Cultural Zionism as a contact zone: Sephardic and Askenazi Jews bridge the gap on the pages of the Argentine newspaper Israel / Raanan Rein and Mollie Lewis Nouwen -- Syrian Jews in Buenos Aires: between religious revival and return to biblical sources, 1953-90 / Susana Brauner -- Religious movements in Mexican Sephardism / Liz Hamui Halabe -- Transnational identity and Miami Sephardim / Henry A. Green -- From Turkey to the United States: the trajectory of Cuban Sephardim in Miami / Margalit Bejarano -- Ladino in Latin America: an old language in the new world / Monique R. Balbuena -- A taste of sepharad from the Mexican suburbs: Rosa Nissán's stylized Ladino in Novia que te vea and Hisho que te nazca / Yael Halevi-Wise -- The role of music in the Quebec Sephardic community / Judith R. Cohen

"'Ugly as sin', 'ugly duckling', 'rear its ugly head'. The word 'ugly' is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around 'feared and dreaded', ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination. Gretchen E. Henderson explores perceptions of ugliness through history, from ancient Roman feasts to medieval grotesque gargoyles, from Mary Shelley's monster cobbled from corpses to the Nazi Exhibition of Degenerate Art. Covering literature, art, music and even Uglydolls, Henderson reveals how ugliness has long posed a challenge to aesthetics and taste. Henderson digs into the muck of ugliness, moving beyond the traditional philosophic argument or mere opposition to beauty, and emerges with more than a selection of fascinating tidbits. Following ugly bodies and dismantling ugly senses across periods and continents, [this book] draws on a wealth of fields to cross cultures and times, delineating the changing map of ugliness as it charges the public imagination. Illustrated with a range of artefacts, this book offers a refreshing perspective that moves beyond the surface to ask what 'ugly' truly is, even as its meaning continues to shift"--

It is asserted that, although the role played by PO in a totalitarian state is carefully controlled, this does not mean that a dictatorship ignores the opinion of its citizens or does not try to measure their thinking. A study of the German Reich Security Main Office (Reichs sic he rhe itshauptamt) & one of its top admin'ors, Otto Ohlendorf, is offered which indicates that Nazi Germany during the period 1939-1945 made considerable efforts to study PO. Data is derived from the reports put out by the office, in mimeographed form, stamped secret, covering about 15-20 pages & providing facts & figures on a variety of themes (transportation problems, youthful crime rates, etc). The office gave special attention to tracking down & interpreting rumors, though this was obviously one of its most bothersome duties, made esp difficult by the fact that Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry often planted rumors as a kind of psychol'al preparation for the public when unpopular gov measures were on the way, such as a cut in food rations. It is clear from Ohlendorf's Meldungen (Reports) that many gov-prompted announcements raised a real storm of reaction from the people. Of particular interest to Ohlendorf's office were communist underground slogans. One of Ohlendorf's Meldungen surveyed the reading tastes of the German public after the 1st yr or so of war & noted the rise in popularity of religious literature. There was also wide interest in internat'l relations, Russian literature, crime novels, & travel accounts. The increasingly gloomy nature of the reports finally brought down the wrath of Party powers on Ohlendorf's head. Hitler did not like bad news & his officials were afraid to convey such news to him. Ohlendorf continued to record Germany's reactions to chaos, misery & defeat. He tried to chart signif trends, such as a widespread wish for peace very early during WWII. Ohlendorf was executed as a war criminal in 1951. M. Maxfield.

"A Taste of Power is an investigation of the crucial role culinary texts and practices played in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies since the founding of the United States. Nutritional advice and representations of food and eating, including cookbooks, literature, magazines, newspapers, still life paintings, television shows, films, and the internet, have helped throughout American history to circulate normative claims about citizenship, gender performance, sexuality, class privilege, race, and ethnicity, while promising an increase in cultural capital and social mobility to those who comply with the prescribed norms. The study examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, as points of cultural resistance against hegemonic norms, especially in shaping dominant ideas of nationalism, gender, and sexuality, suggesting that eating right is a gateway to becoming an American, a good citizen, an ideal man, or a perfect mother. Cookbooks, as a low-prestige literary form, became the largely unheralded vehicles for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for middle-class authors to assert their class privileges, for men to claim superiority over women even in the kitchen, and for Lesbian authors to reinscribe themselves into the heteronormative economy of culinary culture. The book engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture."--Provided by publisher

Foreword: The Southern Tacky Hall of Fame / Charles Reagan Wilson -- Introduction: What would Dolly do? / Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller -- Picturing the tacky : poor white southerners in Gilded Age periodicals / Jolene Hubbs -- The tacky stuff of production, entertainment, and violence : pine tar and the American South / Joe T. Carson -- Tacky mountain cousins : the rise and continuing demise of the Appalachian stereotype in southern mountain literature / Elisabeth Aiken -- We were the bad poor : trash and the limits of tackiness / Garth Sabo -- Not your mama's tacky : huckster style as southern enterprise / Catherine Egley Waggoner -- Reading Lolita in coal country / Jimmy Dean Smith -- Eat dirt and die, trash : tacky, white southerners in The golden girls and murder, she wrote / Jill E. Anderson -- Rednecks on reality TV : The commercial act of representing rural whiteness / Aaron Duplantier -- Southern women don't wear sweatpants : southern mothers and the deceptive policing of appearance / Monica Carol Miller -- Tacky whites and elegant Creoles : the color of taste in nineteenth-century Louisiana / Jarrod Hayes -- He's nothing but a tacky : tackiness and transgression in frontier humor sketches / Katharine A. Burnett -- Outhouses and others : The Ozark tacky novels of Donald Harington / Joseph A. Farmer -- The cultural paradoxes of red velvet cake / Marshall Needleman Armintor -- Perfect reflections of human imperfections : gritty, queer tackiness in the music of robert Earl Keen / Travis A. Rountree -- That tacky little dance band from Athens, Georgia : on seams, assemblages, and the democratic beat of the B-52s / Michael P. Bibler -- Tacky-Lachian Dolly : double-d femme in the double-wide mountain South / Anna Creadick -- Rhinestone cowgirls : reification and the art of southern drag / Isabel Duarte-Gray -- In country music, women reclaim, reframe, and weaponize tacky / Susannah Young.