[PDF.71mm] Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)

Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)

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 | #1227678 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1988-11-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Essential to understand culture in Imperialist Society|By Tony Thomas|Simply put, across the late 19th Century the newly consolidate ruling class of industrial and financial magnates seized control over the definitions of culture, established an iron wall between high and low culture, moved to change the relationship between audience and performer, and between performers and t|From Library Journal|Levine contends that early 19th-century America was characterized by no rigid cultural divisions between elite and mass culture. By the later part of the century, however, a clear line had been drawn; Shakespearean plays, classical music, an

In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable and dynamic cultural boundaries have been and how fragile and recent the cultural categories we have learned to accept as natural and eternal are.

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