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Description:English-Canadian cultural critics from across the political spectrum championed self-improvement, self-awareness, and lively engagement with one's surroundings, struggling to find a balance between the social benefits of democracy and modernization and what they considered the debilitating influence of the accompanying mass culture. They used print and broadcast media in an attempt to convince Canadians that choosing wisely between varieties of culture was an expression of personal and national identity, making cultural nationalism in Canada a middlebrow project. As Kuffert argues, if English Canadians are today more familiar with the ways in which modern life and mass culture envelop and define them, if they live in a nation where private citizens and cultural institutions view the media as avenues of entertainment, as businesses, or as the means to construct identity, they should be aware of the role of wartime and post-war cultural critics in creating those orientations toward culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Great Duty: Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967. To get started finding A Great Duty: Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1282861417

Description: English-Canadian cultural critics from across the political spectrum championed self-improvement, self-awareness, and lively engagement with one's surroundings, struggling to find a balance between the social benefits of democracy and modernization and what they considered the debilitating influence of the accompanying mass culture. They used print and broadcast media in an attempt to convince Canadians that choosing wisely between varieties of culture was an expression of personal and national identity, making cultural nationalism in Canada a middlebrow project. As Kuffert argues, if English Canadians are today more familiar with the ways in which modern life and mass culture envelop and define them, if they live in a nation where private citizens and cultural institutions view the media as avenues of entertainment, as businesses, or as the means to construct identity, they should be aware of the role of wartime and post-war cultural critics in creating those orientations toward culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Great Duty: Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967. To get started finding A Great Duty: Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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