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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Middlebrow attitudes generally; the quality of being middlebrow..
If we wish to stop this march of middlebrowism, education must revamp both its philosophy and its objectives.
In fact, there were critics who saw middlebrowism itself as one of the aesthetic faces of Stalinism.
As Joan Rubin observes in The Making of Middlebrow Culture, the critical backlash against middlebrowism emerged as an eleventh-hour barrier against the erosion of highbrow authority.
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Middlebrowism means Middlebrow attitudes generally; the quality of being middlebrow..
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If we wish to stop this march of middlebrowism, education must revamp both its philosophy and its objectives.
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