Christmas : a social history
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Christmas : a social history
I.B. Tauris, 1999
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Bibliography: p. [247]-256
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a study of the themes which have contributed to the modern Christmas as an icon of cultural and social history. Among those themes are its Anglo-German origins and the idea of the bourgeois Christmas expressing family virtues; the liberal values at the heart of Anglo-American political, cultural and social life; the need for a touchstone with the past in a age of rapid expansion, and thus the myth of Merrie England; the link with imperial expansion and the position of the mother country; the revival of English music - perhaps the greatest age of church music and carols since the 14th century; printing and publishing and the increase in literacy; shopping and consumerism; and broadcasting.
Table of Contents
- The Englishness of Christmas
- John Bull and the Christmas pantomime
- the Christmas carol revival and the English musical renaissance
- Christmas in the British empire
- the BBC and the broadcasting of the English Christmas
- cinema and representations of the English Christmas
- the English Christmas and the growth of a shopping culture
- epilogue - the English Christmas from 1953 to the present day
- conclusion.
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