Fringe and Fortune (eBook)

The Role of Critics in High and Popular Art

Jr. Wesley Monroe Shrum (Autor)

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2021
315 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22763-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Why does the distinction between high and popular art persist in spite of postmodernist predictions that it should vanish? Departing from the conventional view that such distinctions are class-related, Wesley Shrum concentrates instead on the way individuals form opinions about culture through the mediation of critics. He shows that it is the extent to which critics shape the reception of an art form that determines its place in the cultural hierarchy. Those who patronize "e;lowbrow"e; art--stand-up comedy, cabaret, movies, and popular music--do not heed critical opinions nearly as much as do those who patronize "e;highbrow"e; art--theater, opera, and classical music. Thus the role of critics is crucial to understanding the nature of cultural hierarchy and its persistence. Shrum supports his argument through an inquiry into the performing arts, focusing on the Edinburgh Fringe, the world's largest and most diverse art festival. Beginning with eighteenth-century London playhouses and print media, where performance art criticism flourished, Shrum examines the triangle of mediation involving critics, spectators, and performers. The Fringe is shown to parallel modern art worlds, where choices proliferate along with the demand for guidance. Using interviews with critics and performers, analysis of audiences, and published reviews as well as dramatic vignettes, Shrum reveals the impact of critics on high art forms and explores the "e;status bargain"e; in which consumers are influenced by experts in return for prestige.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 14 halftones 1 map 6 line illus. 11 tables
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Schlagworte: accessibility of art • accumulative advantage • Acting • Advertising • aestheticians • Aesthetics • aesthetic theory • Alan Bennett • Amateur • amateur critics • amateur performers • Anecdote • ART • art film • art world • Attendance • Award • book review • Boston Symphony • Box office • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) • Brooks Atkinson • Cabaret • Canadian fringes • Career • Censure • centralization • classical canon • Competition • Consideration • critic • Critical Essays (Orwell) • Criticism • Cultural Capital • cultural heritage • cultural mediation • Daily telegraph • discourse practices • discovery myth • discriminating aesthetic • Discursive practice • Diversity • Dudley Moore • Edinburgh Festival • Edinburgh Festival Fringe • editorial bias • Education • egalitarianism • Embarrassment • Entertainment • entertainment weekly • Epilogue • Explanation • Festival of Israel • Festival Times • Finding • Fine Art • fringe • Fringe First awards • Genre • Genres • Gilded Balloon • heckling • Hegemony Theory • Heteroscedasticity • High Art • highbrow • Highbrow (Transformers) • High Culture • Holyrood Palace • iconography of judgment • Ideology • Improvisation • inference • intimacy and space • john cleese • judgment • Kant, Immanuel • Lecture • Lighting • linear regression • Literature • Make a Difference • Marketing • Marquis of Tweeddale • medical revues • Melodrama • modality of reviews • modern criticism • Mr. • Multicollinearity • music festival • newspaper • opening date • originality • painting • percentage • Performance Art • performance changes • Perform Group • performing arts • Playwright • pleasance • Poetry • Popular Art • popular culture • popularity • Poster • Postmodernism • Prediction • Probability • Publication • publicist • Publicity • Publishing • quality claims • recommendations • Reputation • Respondent • Revue • Satire • Scottish nationalism • sensibility • Social Status • Socioeconomic Status • Sociology • Sociology of Culture • soliloquy • Spectators • Standardized coefficient • Standards • Student's t-test • Subsidy • Suggestion • Television • Theatre • The New York Times • theory • The Other Hand • The Remaining • Tom Stoppard • Traverse Theatre • Uncertainty • Urban legend • Variable (mathematics) • work of art • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22763-2 / 0691227632
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22763-4 / 9780691227634