Middlebrow
Term used (often derogatorily) for describe easily accessible art, usually literature, and the people who use the arts to acquire culture and "class" (social prestige)
The term middlebrow describes middlebrow art, which is easily accessible art, usually popular literature, and middlebrow people who use the arts to acquire the social capital of "culture and class" and thus a good reputation. First used in the British satire magazine Punch in 1925, the term middlebrow is the intellectual, intermediary brow between the highbrow and the lowbrow forms of culture; all of these terms are borrowed from the pseudoscience of phrenology.
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Middlebrow
Term used (often derogatorily) for describe easily accessible art, usually literature, and the people who use the arts to acquire culture and "class" (social prestige)
The term middlebrow describes middlebrow art, which is easily accessible art, usually popular literature, and middlebrow people who use the arts to acquire the social capital of "culture and class" and thus a good reputation. First used in the British satire magazine Punch in 1925, the term middlebrow is the intellectual, intermediary brow between the highbrow and the lowbrow forms of culture; all of these terms are borrowed from the pseudoscience of phrenology.
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The term middlebrow describes middlebrow art, which is easily accessible art, usually popular literature, and middlebrow people who use the arts to acquire the social capital of "culture and class" and thus a good reputation. First used in the British satire magazine Punch in 1925, the term middlebrow is the intellectual, intermediary brow between the highbrow and the lowbrow forms of culture; all of these terms are borrowed from the pseudoscience of phrenology.
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