Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes -- planters and slaves. …
This history of a pivotal group in American society will cause reflection, discussion, and debate. It shows how the black middle class is both a shaper and a mirror and indeed a key force in the "Africanizing" of American culture. In the past three decades the fruits of integrat…
From the publisher. About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse--with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and falli…
Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal.
High-technology capitalism utilizes computers, robots, and global information networks. It has engendered new classes - technocrats, bureaucrats, service and office workers - who will influence the structure and values of society. The question most central for us is that of the …
Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain unexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until recently. Author Anna Bull contri…
Through an ethnographic study of young people playing and singing in classical music ensembles in the south of England, this text analyses why classical music in England is predominantly practiced by white middle-class people. It describes four 'articulations' or associations be…
"Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain unexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until recently. Author Anna Bull contr…
