Middlebrowism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Middlebrowism is a noun meaning Middlebrow attitudes generally; the quality of being middlebrow.
Meaning
Middlebrow attitudes generally; the quality of being middlebrow.
Example Sentences
In fact, there were critics who saw middlebrowism itself as one of the aesthetic faces of Stalinism.
If we wish to stop this march of middlebrowism, education must revamp both its philosophy and its objectives.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include highbrowism, lowbrowism, middle-of-the-roadism, embourgeoisement, bourgeois, mesocracy.
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