1st Edition

British Low Culture From Safari Suits to Sexploitation

By Leon Hunt Unpr Chq, Leon Hunt Copyright 1998
202 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Identifying 'permissive populism', the trickle down of permissiveness into mass consumption, as a key feature of the 1970s, Leon Hunt considers the values of an ostensibly 'bad' decade and analyses the implications of the 1970s for issues of taste and cultural capital. Hunt explores how the British cultural landscape of the 1970s coincided with moral panics, the troubled Heath government, the... Read more
Chapter 1 ‘The Decade that Taste Forgot’?; Chapter 2 Permissive Populism; Chapter 3 From Carnival to Crumpet; Chapter 4 Lads and Loungers; Chapter 5 ‘Knuckle Crazy’; Chapter 6 Can You Keep it Up Fora Decade?; Chapter 7 Coming Clean …; Chapter 8 Grim Flarey Tales; Postscript;

Biography

Chq, Leon Hunt Unpr; Hunt, Leon