Herbivores and Carnivores
The Struggle for Democratic Cultural Values in post-War Britain
by John Astley
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imprint of The COMPANY of WRITERS - for release in 2008.
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PUBLICATION DATE: 17
January 2008
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction:
Cultural Studies/Sociology of Culture/British Society (post-1945)
THEME: Cultural Values
in post-War Britan.
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ISBN:
ISBN-9551834-3-X
or ISBN-9780955183430 (pbk)
OVERVIEW:
In Herbivores and Carnivores, John Astley offers his insights for closed or cloaked subject: the struggle for democratic cultural values in modern Britain.
A central theme emerges: as individual members of society, we so often seem to adhere - the author suggests - to strictly limited choices with pre-packaged versions of the way we live our lives.
If this is so, then why, and from where, do cultural values spring? Whose interests are being promoted? Who writes the scripts?
In his flagship essay, the author explores this complex issue, which seems to have slipped from view in today’s media-drenched consumer society. If cultural values - i.e., what is, and what is not, important - have become eroded or obviated by consumerism, then is it not time to ask again: whose interests are being promoted? And why?
For that matter, who are the Herbivores and Carnivores of the ongoing struggle as cited in the author’s beguiling title?
The reader is offered a cud or two to chew on, while ruminating over the larger fodder of the themes presented in these essays and papers.
AUTHOR: John Astley
is a sociologist, writer and lecturer - and is a frequent
contributor to journals, conferences, and radio talks.
As a sociologist of culture, he is also the author of
three volumes of collected essays: Liberation
& Domestication, Culture
& Creativity, and Professionalism
& Practice.
John Astley is also the author of a
monograph on The
Beatles Phenomenon.
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Re-Posted: 12 May 2008
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