Wright, David (2015) Understanding cultural taste : sensation, skill and sensibility. Basingstoke: Palgrave. ISBN 9781137447067

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Abstract

Understanding Cultural Taste updates and critiques established theoretical and empirical accounts of cultural taste. It takes account of the role of cultural industries and cultural policies in shaping cultural tastes and of the contemporary technologies through which cultural goods are produced, circulated and consumed. It weaves together a story of taste as bound up with sensation, skill and sensibility. Taking a historical and theoretical perspective which complicates an understanding of taste as either a matter of personal preference or a simple weapon in social struggles, the book argues that taste remains a significant and complex concept in the sociology of culture, media and cultural studies, cultural policy studies and in their applied sub-disciplines. Such disciplines have come to appreciate and accept the relation between taste and individual and group identities but have been less attentive to other social and political dimensions of this important component of cultural life

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Popular culture, Group identity -- Social aspects, Globalization -- Social aspects
Publisher:	Palgrave
Place of Publication:	Basingstoke
ISBN:	9781137447067
Official Date:	July 2015
Dates:	Date Event July 2015 Published
Number of Pages:	188
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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