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   middlebrow

   /ˈmɪdlbraʊ/

   adjective

   • 1. demanding, involving, or having only a moderate degree of intellectual application: "middlebrow fiction"

   noun

   • 1. a middlebrow person.

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   What is middlebrow art?

   • The term middlebrow describes middlebrow art, which is easily accessible art, usually popular literature, and middlebrow people who use the arts to acquire the social capital of "culture and class" and thus a good reputation.

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   What does middlebrow mean?

   • Add to one of your lists below, or create a new one. MIDDLEBROW definition: 1. Middlebrow music, literature, art, and films are of good quality, interesting, and often…. Learn more.

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   When did middlebrow become a pejorative term?

   • In the mid 20th century, the term middlebrow became a pejorative usage in the modernist cultural criticism written by Dwight Macdonald, Virginia Woolf, and Russell Lynes, which pejorative usage placed popular culture at the margin of mainstream culture in favour of high culture.

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   What is the difference between a lowbrow and a middlebrow?

   • A lowbrow is someone with vulgar, uncultured tastes. A middlebrow, therefore, is someone with tastes that fall somewhere in the middle. A middlebrow might enjoy both lowbrow and highbrow entertainment, such as the rodeo or the opera. Or they might enjoy things that fall smack in the middle as far as sophistication goes.

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     MIDDLEBROW meaning: 1. Middlebrow music, literature, art,...

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     middlebrow translate: acessível ao público pouco...

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   middlebrow: [noun] a person who is moderately but not highly cultivated.

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   Middlebrow. The term middlebrow describes middlebrow art, which is easily accessible art, usually popular literature, and middlebrow people who use the arts to acquire the social capital of "culture and class" and thus a good reputation. First used in the British satire magazine Punch in 1925, the term middlebrow is the intellectual ...

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   Middlebrow definition: a person of conventional tastes and interests in matters of culture; a moderately cultivated person.. See examples of MIDDLEBROW used in a sentence.

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   2 meanings: 1. a person with conventional tastes and limited cultural appreciation also: middlebrowed 2. of or appealing to.... Click for more definitions.

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   3 days ago · middlebrow: 1 n someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow Type of: individual , mortal , person , somebody , someone , soul a human being

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