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All in the Best Possible Taste

Author : Tom Bromley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847378544
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book All in the Best Possible Taste written by Tom Bromley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television past, as LP Hartley might have once said, is another country. And, in the early 1980s it certainly was a different beast. There were still only three channels to watch; the evening's programmes finished with the playing of the national anthem; and the biggest prize on TV was not Chris Tarrant's million pounds but a speedboat on Bullseye . . . But as Tom Bromley suggests in this funny and warming memoir, all that was about to change: The 1980s saw the end of the original golden era of television, and the beginnings of TV as we know it today. In 1982, Channel 4 became the first new terrestrial channel for almost twenty years and by the end of the decade, Rupert Murdoch's Sky Television was vying to become Britain's first multi-channel provider. The result of all this was that slowly but surely, British viewers had more choice than ever before and the cost of this choice was the erosion of television as a shared national event. And no-one felt this change more deeply than Tom Bromley. Television played a large part in Tom's childhood. His first word was 'two', as in BBC Two, and his earliest childhood memory is seeing Johnny Ball at a church fete. With great humour and affection, Tom Bromley tells the story of a childhood spent with his three siblings and that other all-important family member; the television set.

In the Best Possible Taste

Author : David Lister
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747530831
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book In the Best Possible Taste written by David Lister and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of Kenny Everett, who died of AIDS in April 1995. As a broadcaster he changed the presentation of music radio forever with his zany, irreverent and anarchic humour. His career spanned and helped to shape the key moments in broadcasting history: pirate radio, the birth of Radio 1 and the start of commercial radio.

Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste

Author : J. M. F. Heath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198902034
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste written by J. M. F. Heath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clement of Alexandria and the Judgement of Taste: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Christian Formation provides a new account of Clement of Alexandria's Paedagogus as a programme in the formation of the judgement of taste, situating it in critical dialogue with modern approaches to the judgement of taste and aesthetics. The book's key questions are framed considering Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction (1979): a landmark in twentieth-century scholarship on the theory of taste. J. M. F. Heath studies Clement's rhetoric and theology in the context of the Christian Second Sophistic, when Christians were experimenting with new ways of inhabiting the rhetorical and philosophical culture of the Greco-Roman world. The Paedagogus shows Clement's pedagogical method and rhetorical strategy at the early stages of Christian formation when his audience are not yet ready for abstract philosophical argument. This was a time for forming people's habits of judgement and preferences of 'taste', so as to ground their daily lives in deeper desires and aversions that are structured through a relationship with God. This was an immensely important stage of Christian formation: many people never got beyond this to any sort of philosophical curriculum, and yet, through engaging the 'tastes' of a wide audience, Christian leaders sought to spread the gospel--and succeeded in doing so. Even for the intellectual elites, personal formation through preferences of taste was part of how they embodied their desire for God, and the way they inhabited it through the sacramental and ascetic life of the church. Bourdieu's sociological and anthropological approach proves fruitful for understanding aspects of Clement's rhetorical method and purpose, but the study of Clement's theological rhetoric in its cultural context also, in turn, points the way to a theological response to Bourdieu's theory of taste.

The Bee-keepers' Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Bee-keepers' Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sovereignty of Taste

Author : James S. Hans
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093283
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Sovereignty of Taste written by James S. Hans and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002-01-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging prevailing trends toward aesthetic neutrality, James S. Hans argues that there is such a thing as good and bad taste, that taste is something one is born with, and that it is firmly rooted in the mechanics of biology. Taste is everything, Hans says, for it produces the primary values that guide our lives. Taste is the fundamental organizing mechanism of human bodies, a lifelong effort to fit one's own rhythms to the rhythms and patterns of the natural world and the larger human community. It is an aesthetic sorting process by which one determines what belongs in--a conversation, a curriculum, a committee, a piece of art, a meal, a logical argument--and what should be left out. On the one hand, taste is the source of beauty, justice, and a sense of the good. On the other hand, as an arbiter of the laws of fair and free play, taste enters into more ominous and destructive patterns--but patterns nonetheless--of resentment and violence. Hans develops his conception of taste through astute readings of five literary landmarks: Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, William Faulkner's Light in August, and the poetry of Emily Dickinson and the Polish Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz. These texts explore the art of soulmaking and the quest for personal expression: the costs as well as the fruits that come from acceding to the imperatives of one's being. They also reveal how the collision of personal and collective rhythms, whether in the Greek citadel or the Mississippi countryside, leads to violence and ritualized sacrifice. Elegant, principled, and provocative, The Sovereignty of Taste is an essential book that restores taste to its rightful place of influence, shoring up the ground beneath civilization's feet and offering hope for the future of integrity, value, and aesthetic truth.

Bower of Taste

Author : Katherine Augusta Ware
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bower of Taste written by Katherine Augusta Ware and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slavery and the Culture of Taste

Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069116097X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and the Culture of Taste written by Simon Gikandi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery's impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of the time. Gikandi focuses on the ways that the enslavement of Africans and the profits derived from this exploitation enabled the moment of taste in European--mainly British--life, leading to a transformation of bourgeois ideas regarding freedom and selfhood. He explores how these connections played out in the immense fortunes made in the West Indies sugar colonies, supporting the lavish lives of English barons and altering the ideals that defined middle-class subjects. Discussing how the ownership of slaves turned the American planter class into a new aristocracy, Gikandi engages with the slaves' own response to the strange interplay of modern notions of freedom and the realities of bondage, and he emphasizes the aesthetic and cultural processes developed by slaves to create spaces of freedom outside the regimen of enforced labor and truncated leisure. Through a close look at the eighteenth century's many remarkable documents and artworks, Slavery and the Culture of Taste sets forth the tensions and contradictions entangling a brutal practice and the distinctions of civility.

Tribe of Mentors

Author : Timothy Ferriss
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 1328994961
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Tribe of Mentors written by Timothy Ferriss and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life-changing wisdom from 130 of the world's highest achievers in short, action-packed pieces, featuring inspiring quotes, life lessons, career guidance, personal anecdotes, and other advice

After Taste

Author : Slavko Kacunko
Publisher : via tolino media
ISBN 13 : 3752147725
Total Pages : 855 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book After Taste written by Slavko Kacunko and published by via tolino media. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Taste is an inquiry into a field of study dedicated to the reconsideration, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the concept of Taste. Taste is the category, whose systematic, historical and actual dimensions have traditionally been located in a variety of disciplines. The actuality and potential of the study is based on a variety of collected facts from readings and experiences, which materialize in the following features: One concept (figurative Taste), two thinking traditions (analytic and synthetic/continental) and three interrelated dimensions (systematic, historic and actual) are presented in three parts or volumes. As such, the study presents a salient comprehensive companion for wider readership of humanities approaching conceptions of Taste for the first time. Moreover, After Taste is intended for anyone who hopes to make a further contribution to the subject. Since its appearance and apparently short triumph some 250 years ago, the concept of non-literary Taste remained the linchpin of aesthetic theory and practice, but also a category outreaching aesthetics. Taste as the personal unity of the production, theory and criticism of art and literature, which was still largely taken as a given in the eighteenth century, has meanwhile given way to a highly-differentiated art world, in which aesthetic discourse is placed in such a way that it can seemingly no longer have a conceptual or linguistic effect on general opinion making. After Taste fills the gaps of systematic research by a comprehensive tracing of the emergence of the doctrines, discourses and disciplinary dimensions of Taste up to the peak of its systematic and historical trajectory in the eighteenth century and onwards into the present day. The guiding goal is a post-disciplinary rehabilitation of the contested category as a preparation for its productive usage in emerging academic and popular contexts. It shows how the category of Taste became the foundation, legitimation and the catalyst for the emerging division of labour, faculties and disciplines, confirming the hypothesis of the immense impact and actuality of Taste in the contemporary world.

The Saga of Hawkwind

Author : Carol Clerk
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857120174
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Saga of Hawkwind written by Carol Clerk and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawkwind emerged in 1969 from Ladbroke Grove, the heartland of London’s counterculture, to become a ‘people’s band’ supported by bikers and hippies alike as they staged free gigs, benefits and protests and welcomed the involvement of any number of creative people – writers, poets, dancers – from within their community. They insisted upon all these things even with the Top Three success of 1972’s enduring anthem Silver Machine and the pioneering Space Ritual projects. They have had more line-up changes than their only remaining founder member Dave Brock, can remember. Motorhead’s Lemmy and legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker were just two of the musicians sacrificed along the way as the band went head to head with the police, customs, the taxman – and each other. With the memories of many of those who were there, this is the story of an extraordinary 35-year career, the music and the band, whose fans still loyally turn out for conventions and are rewarded with ‘private festivals’, set against a background of sex, drugs, madness, writs, rage and revenge.

The Cat's Pyjamas

Author : Julia Cresswell
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141912421
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Cat's Pyjamas written by Julia Cresswell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, thematic exploration of clichés from as the actress said to the bishop to zero hour, explaining what they are and where they’ve come from. Julia Cresswell has taken her best-selling dictionary of clichés (‘Sumptuous... A mine of information.’ Guardian) back to the drawing board and has created a book, packed with famous (and infamous) quotations and memorable information, that will change the way you see English.

The Physiology of Taste

Author : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307390373
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Physiology of Taste written by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful and hilarious classic about the joys of the table, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book about food ever written. First published in France in 1825 and continuously in print ever since, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s masterpiece is a historical, philosophical, and epicurean collection of recipes, reflections, and anecdotes on everything and anything gastronomical. Brillat-Savarin—who famously stated “Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are”—shrewdly expounds upon culinary matters that still resonate today, from the rise of the destination restaurant to matters of diet and weight, and in M. F. K. Fisher, whose commentary is both brilliant and amusing, he has an editor with a sensitivity and wit to match his own.

The Cultivator

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Cultivator written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Calcutta Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Calcutta Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste

Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019924040X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste written by Charles Martindale and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

The Cornhill Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cornhill Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invention of Taste

Author : Luca Vercelloni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000183572
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Taste written by Luca Vercelloni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invention of Taste provides a detailed overview of the development of taste, from ancient times to the present. At the heart of the book is an intriguing question: why did the sensory attribute of human taste become a social metaphor and aesthetic value for judging cultural qualities of art, fashion, cuisine and other social constructions? Unique amongst the senses, taste is at once a biologically derived sense, private, personal and individual, yet also a sensibility which can be acquired, shared, and communicated. Exploring the many factors that defined the evolution of taste – from medieval morals and medicine to social and cultural philosophy, the rise of aesthetics, birth of fashion, branding trends, and luxury worship in the age of mass consumption – Luca Vercelloni’s ambitious text provides readers with an outstanding introduction to the subject, making it the cultural history of taste.Now available for the first time in English, Taste features a new final chapter and a preface by series editor David Howes. Rich in detail and examples, this interdisciplinary work is an important read for students and researchers in sensory studies, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies, as well as gastronomy, fashion, design, and branding.