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When Highbrow Meets LowbrowIntroduction—Browbeaten into Pulp

When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow: Introduction—Browbeaten into Pulp [In our global and eclectic—not to say chaotic—world one might be forgiven for thinking that the opposition between highbrows and lowbrows is a thing of the past. Our introduction sketches the contours of a crossover cultural formation that has always carried—and in times of all-out prohibition, smuggled—goods between the elites and the masses. The nobrow manifestations of our culture are not freaks of nature but the cultural norm. From a critical perspective, going nobrow means acknowledging that highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow are not measures of aesthetic value, but rather sociocultural categories that help organize our cultural creations and lives.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

When Highbrow Meets LowbrowIntroduction—Browbeaten into Pulp

Editors: Swirski, Peter; Vanhanen, Tero Eljas
Swirski, Peter; Vanhanen, Tero Eljas
When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow — Apr 25, 2017
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
ISBN
978-1-137-59772-4
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1–9
DOI
10.1057/978-1-349-95168-0_1
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Abstract

[In our global and eclectic—not to say chaotic—world one might be forgiven for thinking that the opposition between highbrows and lowbrows is a thing of the past. Our introduction sketches the contours of a crossover cultural formation that has always carried—and in times of all-out prohibition, smuggled—goods between the elites and the masses. The nobrow manifestations of our culture are not freaks of nature but the cultural norm. From a critical perspective, going nobrow means acknowledging that highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow are not measures of aesthetic value, but rather sociocultural categories that help organize our cultural creations and lives.]

Published: Apr 25, 2017

Keywords: Nobrow; Lowbrow; Cultural Crossover; Middlebrow Culture; Australian Olympic Team

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