Taste and Lifestyle
Taste and Lifestyle: Laurie Taylor explores the way in which consumer culture remade the the tastes of an emerging middle class and hears about the West Indian front room.
Taste and Lifestyle: Laurie Taylor talks to Ben Highmore, Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, whose latest study explores the ways in which consumer culture remade the tastes of an emerging middle class 鈥� from pine kitchen tables to Mediterranean cuisine. Did this world of symbolic goods create new feelings and attitudes?
Also, Michael McMillan, Associate Lecturer for Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion, discusses the migrant experience of African-Caribbean families setting up home in the UK in the mid-20th century. How did the artefacts and objects which dressed the West Indian front room provide an outlet for feelings of displacement and alienation in a society where they weren't always made to feel 'at home'?
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex
Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain (Manchester University Press)听
,听听Associate Lecturer for Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion
The Front Room:听Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd)Broadcasts
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