Meaning of middle-browism | Babel Free

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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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