Finnish consumption

Kirjan kuvaus

Introduction: the formation of the Finnish type of consumer society between the East and the West, the 1950s and 1960s / Visa Heinonen. Pt. I. The making og the frugal consumer. The Finnish consumer mentality and ethos: at the intersection between East and West / Visa Heinonen and Minna Autio. A country of decent consumers: the role of alcohol in everyday Finnish life in the 1950s / Matti Peltonen. Imagining economy: Finlandia newsreels building up shared imagery in the 1950s and early 1960s / Minna Lammi and Päivi Timonen. Anglo-American pop music, Finnish tango, and the controversial images of modernity in Finland in the 1960s / Janne Poikolainen. Pt II. Consumption as spectacle: age of the television, affluence and mediatisation of consumer society. Television creating Finnish consumer mentality in the 1960s / Jukka Kortti. The legalizing of roulette and changes in Finnish consumer culture in the 1960s and 1970s / Riitta Matilainen. Accidental traders - Finnish tourists in the Soviet Union in the 1950s-1970s / Hanna Kuusi. From background to foreground: music products for production and consumption spaces / Kaarina Kilpiö. Afterword : summerhouses and saunas, parks and libraries - places of private and public consumption in Finland / Matti Peltonen and Visa Heinonen.