Yesterday my Western Art #Music class had a lovely discussion about #highbrow #middlebrow and #lowbrow culture. They decided that the categories were artifacts of a different culture; that technologies of access nowadays render that structure obsolete. That the 20th century had backwards and Eurocentric notions of privilege and “the intellectual” in music, and that “niche” was a fairer category than “highbrow”

The class remained divided on whether Taylor Swift could be considered highbrow :-)

Kennt ihr wahrscheinlich schon alle. Daher vermutlich nur eine Erinnerung. Und kennst du es noch nicht: Hörspielschatz! in der ARD-Mediathek.

https://www.ardaudiothek.de/rubrik/hoerspiel/42914712/

#fedilz #hoerspiel #hoerspiele #podcast #kultur #unterhaltung #highbrow #art #kunst

The Best #Books of 2023, According to #HarpersBazaar

The Harper’s Bazaar list has 45 #books on it, ranging from “#fizzy #summer #beach #reads to #highbrow #literary #fiction.”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture

https://bookriot.com/harpers-bazaar-best-books-2023/

One thing that the Super Mario Bros. Movie from Illumination doesn't get enough credit for is its daring critique of multimodal interbeing in a post-colonial society modeled in the image of Situationist spectacle seen through a Rawlsian lens.

#FilmCritique #HighBrow