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ISBN 90 6256 019 9. - Rob Kroes (e., High Brow Meets Low Brow: American Culture as an Intellectual Concern. European Contributions to American Studies 13 (Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1988, DFL 6. 0 cloth, DFL 3. 0 paper). Pp. 240. ISBN 90 6256 621 9, ISBN 90.

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Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor. Highbrow" can be applied to music, implying most of the classical music tradition; to literature-i.

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The extension of American national power across the continent and then the globe. Examples of culture include symphonies and Shakespeare, as well as an anthropological approach (Franz Boas) in which culture is what the people do (there is no best culture, but it is inherent to society. There was and still is a concern that mass culture makes art and culture less authentic, less focused on individual experience and more of a copy (even if it is a medium that doesn't have an original, individual production that was copied, such as cinema.