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Accounting for Tastes Australian Everyday Cultures [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • Author:  Bennett, Tony, Emmison, Michael, Frow, John
  • Author:  Bennett, Tony, Emmison, Michael, Frow, John
  • ISBN-10:  0521635047
  • ISBN-10:  0521635047
  • ISBN-13:  9780521635042
  • ISBN-13:  9780521635042
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Pages:  328
  • Pages:  328
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Oct-1999
  • Pub Date:  01-Oct-1999
  • SKU:  0521635047-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0521635047-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 101380564
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A systematic and substantial study of Australian cultural tastes, preferences and activities, first published in 1999.Accounting for Tastes is the most systematic and substantial study of Australian cultural tastes, preferences and activities ever published. While based on the findings of a survey, the book also includes transcripts from interviews where respondents talk freely about what governs their tastes and preferences in home furnishings, music, books, sports, television programs, and art. It is a book which makes a substantial contribution to the empirical and policy-oriented social inquiry into questions of cultural practices and preferences.Accounting for Tastes is the most systematic and substantial study of Australian cultural tastes, preferences and activities ever published. While based on the findings of a survey, the book also includes transcripts from interviews where respondents talk freely about what governs their tastes and preferences in home furnishings, music, books, sports, television programs, and art. It is a book which makes a substantial contribution to the empirical and policy-oriented social inquiry into questions of cultural practices and preferences.Accounting for Tastes is the most systematic and substantial study of Australian cultural tastes, preferences and activities ever published. While based on the findings of a survey, the book also includes transcripts from interviews where respondents talk freely about what governs their tastes and preferences in home furnishings, music, books, sports, television programs, and art. It is a book that makes a substantial contribution to the empirical and policy-oriented social inquiry into questions of cultural practices and preferences.1. Theorising cultures; 2. Culture choice and the home; 3. Media culture and the home; 4. Leisure and work; 5. Care of the body, care of the self; 6. Reading by numbers; 7. Music tastes and music knowledge; 8. The united tastes of Australia?; 9. Public/privatel#i
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