American Culture, American Tastes
Subtitle: Social Change and the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: September 20, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780465037292
First sentence: A decade ago, when I began to teach courses on the evolution of taste levels and cultural stratification in the United States-courses con with culture in a democratic society, the society, the commodification of culture, the changing nature and uses of leisure, culture and national identity, those kinds of issues-a troublesome lack of definitional clar and precision in the pertinent literature quickly became apparent.