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| 附加的形体格式: | Online version: Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow/lowbrow. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988 (OCoLC)572422506 Online version: Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow/lowbrow. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988 (OCoLC)604084906 |
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| 文件类型: | 书 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Lawrence W Levine |
| ISBN: | 0674390768 9780674390768 0674390776 9780674390775 |
| OCLC号码: | 17804284 |
| 注意: | Originally published, 1988. First published in paperback, 1990. |
| 描述: | xii, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 内容: | Prologue -- 1. William Shakespeare in America -- 2. The sacralization of culture -- 3. Order, hierarchy, and culture -- Epilogue. |
| 丛书名: | William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization, 1986. |
| 责任: | Lawrence W. Levine. |
摘要:
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. For most of the nineteenth century, a wide variety of expressive forms--Shakespearean drama, opera, orchestral music, painting and sculpture, as well as the writings of such authors as Dickens and Longfellow--enjoyed both high cultural status and mass popularity. In the nineteenth century Americans (in addition to whatever specific ethnic, class, and regional cultures they were part of) shared a public culture less hierarchically organized, less fragmented into relatively rigid adjectival groupings than their descendants were to experience. By the twentieth century this cultural eclecticism and openness became increasingly rare. Cultural space was more sharply defined and less flexible than it had been. The theater, once a microcosm of America--housing both the entire spectrum of the population and the complete range of entertainment from tragedy to farce, juggling to ballet, opera to minstrelsy--now fragmented into discrete spaces catering to distinct audiences and separate genres of expressive culture. The same transition occurred in concert halls, opera houses, and museums. A growing chasm between "serious" and "popular," between "high" and "low" culture came to dominate America's expressive arts. [...] In this innovative historical exploration, Levine not only traces the emergence of such familiar categories as highbrow and lowbrow at the turn of the century, but helps us to understand more clearly both the process of cultural change and the nature of culture in American society. --Publisher description.
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