Meaning of middle-browism | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

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“The fear of corporatism, consumerism, middle-browism and a mass reading public has driven twentieth-century cultural hierarchists.”

“As these emulations might suggest⟳, this broad jazz-with-strings repertory is closely related to midcentury trends in American "middle-browism," a connection especially prominent in this music's overriding glorified entertainment aesthetic and its often presumed dilutions of "higher" musical traditions.”

“In the lecture⟳, Briggs warned of the dangers of what Macdonald called 'middle-browism', and elsewhere expressed his concern⟳ that the acquisitive society was not only creating passive work⟳ but also passive leisure, 'a parody of social democracy'.”

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