EPISODE · Jul 31, 2018 · 39 MIN
110: Ringing The Changes
from Making of a Historian · host Making of a Historian
In this episode, we hear a version of a paper I will be presenting at the PCB-AHA 2018 Conference, on change ringing and masculinity. Over the long 18th century, British men made clubs to practice a weirdly intricate form of bell ringing called change ringing. Why? I argue that it allowed middle classed men a public way to demonstrate their middle classed skills in a way that was distinctively cool. They showed off their conspicuous complexity--not the conspicuous consumption of the wealthy.
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In this episode, we hear a version of a paper I will be presenting at the PCB-AHA 2018 Conference, on change ringing and masculinity. Over the long 18th century, British men made clubs to practice a weirdly intricate form of bell ringing called change ringing. Why? I argue that it allowed middle classed men a public way to demonstrate their middle classed skills in a way that was distinctively cool. They showed off their conspicuous complexity--not the conspicuous consumption of the wealthy.
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