Highbrow/Lowbrow : : The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America / / Lawrence W. Levine.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [1990]
©1988
Year of Publication:1990
Language:English
Series:The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • One William Shakespeare in America
  • Two The Sacralization of Culture
  • Three Order, Hierarchy, and Culture
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index