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Finnish consumption : an emerging consumer society between East and West

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Visa Heinonen & Matti Peltonen
Ausstellungsort
Helsinki
Ausgabejahr
2013
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements . . 7
Introduction: The Formation of the Finnish Type of Consumer Society between the East and the West, the!950s and 1960s . . 10

PART I. THE MAKING OF THE FRUGAL CONSUMER
The Finnish Consumer Mentality and Ethos: At the Intersection between East and West . . 42
A Country of Decent Consumers: The Role of Alcohol in Everyday Finnish Life in the 1950s . . 88
Imagining Economy. Finlandia Newsreels Building up shared Imagery in the 1950s and early 1960s . . 104
Anglo-American Pop Music, Finnish Tango, and the Controversial Images of Modernity in Finland in the 1960s . . 124

PART II. CONSUMPTION AS SPECTACLE: AGE OF THE TELEVISION, AFFLUENCE AND MEDIATISATION OF CONSUMER SOCIETY
Television Creating Finnish Consumer Mentality in the 1960s . . 154
The Legalizing of Roulette and Changes in Finnish Consumer Culture in the 1960s and 1970s . . 180
Accidental Traders - Finnish Tourists in the Soviet Union in THE 1950s-1970s . . 206
From Background to Foreground: Music Products for Production and Consumption Spaces. . 230

Afterword
Summerhouses and Saunas, Parks and Libraries - Places of Private and Public Consumption in Finland . . 254
List of conrributors . . 260

Serie
(Studia Historica ; 83)