The Abundant Culture: Meaning and Significance in Everyday Australia

by Donald Horne (Editor)

The Abundant Culture is a timely reassessment of Australian cultural life - from sport, to food and film. It is a collection of lively essays by Australia's leading cultural commentators on the pursuits and concerns that give meaning and significance to everyday life. It covers a unique range of topics - from cultural heritage, gender and fashion to the beach, new films and the Sylvania Waters phenomenon.
The assumed truths of the past can no longer stand. Indigenous, feminist, multicultural and regional issues are demanding equal time. The face of everyday Australia has changed irrevocably, as these twenty-four contributions demonstrate. Cultural meanings are being contested. The workplace is altering and the political map changing. We have new heroes and new priorities. The Abundant Culture is a portrait of this new Australia.

264 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

About the author

Donald Richmond Horne AO was an Australian journalist, writer, and public intellectual. He was editor of The Bulletin, The Observer, and Quadrant, and was best known for his 1964 book The Lucky Country.