Fringe and Fortune : : The Role of Critics in High and Popular Art / / Wesley Monroe Shrum.

Why does the distinction between high and popular art persist in spite of postmodernist predictions that it should vanish? Departing from the conventional view that such distinctions are class-related, Wesley Shrum concentrates instead on the way individuals form opinions about culture through the m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1996
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (315 p.) :; 14 halftones 1 map 6 line illus. 11 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction. A Critic's New Clothes
  • Part One. The Critic
  • Chapter One. Cultural Mediation and the Status Bargain
  • Chapter Two. Critics in the Performing Arts
  • Part Two. The Fringe
  • Chapter Three. Development of the Festival Fringe
  • Chapter Four. Festivals and the Modern Fringe
  • Chapter Five. Myth of the Fringe
  • Part Three. The Triangle of Mediation
  • Chapter Six. Do Critics Matter?
  • Chapter Seven. Critical Evaluation
  • Chapter Eight. Do Performers Listen?
  • Part Four. Beyond the Fringe
  • Chapter Nine. Beyond Formal Evaluation
  • Chapter Ten. Discourse and Hierarchy
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A. Review Genres
  • Appendix B. Methodological
  • Appendix C. Note on the Study of Mediation and Reception
  • Appendix D. Tables
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author