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免费 1. Coming to Terms with Defining Terms
2. Culture Democratized: Distinction or Degradation?
I. Popular Culture and Democratic Values
II. The Sources and Social Dimensions of Democratic Change
III. The Meanings of Democratization to Contemporaries
IV. Democracy and Cultural Stratification
3. Consumerism, Americanism, and the Phasing of Popular Cult
I. Promoting Consumerism and Popular Culture
II. Commercialization and the Transition to Mass Culture
III. Promoting Americanism and Popular Culture
4. Popular Culture in Transition—and in Its Prime
I. Changing Perceptions of Cultural Stratification
II. Popular Culture in Its Prime
III. The Pivotal Decade: The 1930s
IV. The Persistence of Popular Culture
5. Blurring the Boundaries Between Taste Levels
I. The Deceptive Appearance of Increasing Stratification
II. Perceptions of Persistence in Taste Levels
III. Diminishing the Distance Between High and Popular Cultu
IV. Bridging the Gap Between High Culture and Low
V. Coda: Rejuvenating the Middlebrow’s Reputation
6. Cultural Criticism and the Transformation of Cultural Aut
I. Cultural Authority Embodied and Exercised
II. Cultural Criticism as Cultural Authority
III. The Decline of Cultural Authority and the Rise of Cultu
7. The Gradual Emergence of Mass Culture and Its Critics
I. Mass Society and Mass Culture Are Not the Same
II. Commercial Culture and Proto-Mass Culture
III. Mass Culture and the Great Debate
8. Mass Culture in More Recent Times: Passive and/or Partici
I. The Great Debate Redivivus: An Ideological Inversion
II. American Spectators and the Screen at Home
III. Innovations in Mass Culture Since 1980
IV. A Second Debate: Agency Versus Passivity in Mass Cultur
9. Historians and the Problem of Popular Culture in Recent T
I. Legitimizing Popular Culture Among Historians
II. Professional Historians and Popular History
III. Art and Popular Culture in Historical Context
IV. Popular Culture and the Problem of Interpretation in Our
10. Meetings of the Minds? Moving Beyond Customary Categorie
I. Reprise and Clarification, Ambivalence and Contestation

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