Episode 137: Bourdieu on the Tastes of Social Classes (Part Two)
Summary: Continuing on Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1979) with guest rock star Tim Quirk (from <a href="http://toomuchjoy.com/" target="_blank">Too Much Joy</a>).<br> We continue talking about Bourdieu's conclusions regarding his survey of musical tastes: People use their tastes to distinguish themselves, to assert their social superiority. Bourdieu thinks the Kantian, upper-class, art-for-art's-sake paradigm of taste (which includes not just the arts but philosophy and other activities, too!) precludes, for example, joining in a mosh pit or roaring stadium crowd, but are the Kantian and social types of artistic abandon really so distinct? Is losing yourself a matter of exerting your freedom or being dominated? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674212770/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674212770&linkCode=as2&tag=theparexalif-20&linkId=QDT5HTJLCFEZDMTR">Buy the book</a>.<br> Listen to <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2016/04/11/ep37-1-bourdieu/" target="_blank">part 1</a> first, or get the ad-free, unbroken <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2016/04/10/ep137-bourdieu-citizen/" target="_blank">Citizen Edition</a>. <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/donate/" target="_blank">Please support PEL</a>!<br> End song: "When She Took Off Her Shirt" from Tim's band Wonderlick's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002AJQ7FG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002AJQ7FG&linkCode=as2&tag=theparexalif-20&linkId=77OYMIRN6WWBZUFF" target="_blank">Topless at the Arco Arena</a> (2005).<br> Bourdieu picture by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Solomon.grundy.39" target="_blank">Solomon Grundy</a>.<br>
