2008/9/25 Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com:
On 7/11/08, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
I gather the intended meaning was popular culture. How do you intend to distinguish popular culture as distinct from high culture, or recognized academic culture? Or do you mean it to exclude fiction altogether? On what justification can you exclude fiction, but not paintings or music?
It's safe enough to assume that all culture was "popular" at some time and place.
Not really. There's art that's popular with the masses and there's art created for a patron. The two often intersect but are not the same thing. c.f. Neal Stephenson in Slashdot (answer to the second question):
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/20/1518217
- d.