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The Conspiracy Of Good Taste

The Conspiracy of Good Taste: William Morris, Cecil Sharp and Clough Williams-Ellis and the repression of working class culture in the C20th 15 b/w illustrations, 10 colour photographs. "This updated, second edition offers some important and inventive thinking about systematic attempts to impoverish, if not eradicate, workers' culture in Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By following the endeavours of several wealthy socialists, Szczelkun traces the colonialization of the country's bawdy, unruly, interior by its ruling and rentier classes – albeit in the guise of philanthropy, through championing the culture of 'the common people,' as Cole and Postgate (1938) and indeed as Jarvis Cocker et al (1995) would have it. In many ways, this assault forms part of the class war waged through the enclosure of the commons, closing down the possibility of communal ways of living, political organization, and even singing and dancing. Here, perhaps, there are parallels to the 'cultural genocide' visited by Empire on indigenous people throughout its territory. This book reminds us of how violence of this kind is enacted 'at home', as well as abroad. Szczelkun presents plenty o

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