The production of taste: ecologies, intersections, implications

Geary, P. (2020) The production of taste: ecologies, intersections, implications. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 40(3), pp. 280-291. (doi: 10.1080/14682761.2020.1807193)

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Abstract

This article examines the construction of taste and its implications for the socio-economic and aesthetic diversity of the theatre and performance landscape. It considers how tastes are produced and reproduced, both in relation to socio-political and cultural interpellation and in relation to embodied and personal experience. Beginning with Bourdieu’s Distinction, the article explores how tastes are produced in relation to class and cultural capital. It goes on to propose an ecology of four arenas of taste production: authoritative instruction, performances of self, the comfort of familiarity and the influence of associations. Each works in relation to the others and acknowledge the complexity of taste production, moving beyond Bourdieu’s generational model. These arenas of taste production are considered in relation to their implications in decision-making and judgements around the production, cultivation, resourcing and programming of arts practice. The article argues that taste is pervasive, infecting and inflecting judgements and decisions and, as such, needs to be acknowledged and used in the pursuit of greater diversity in the arts.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:UNSPECIFIED
Authors: Geary, P.
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Theatre Film and TV Studies
Journal Name:Studies in Theatre and Performance
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
ISSN:1468-2761
ISSN (Online):2040-0616
Published Online:07 January 2021
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2020 The Author
First Published:First published in Studies in Theatre and Performance 40(3): 280-291
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
301220Incubate/Propagate: Networked Ecologies of New Performance-MakingElizabeth TomlinArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)AH/R012962/1Arts - Theatre studies