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What (who) is middle-brow - definition
TERM USED (OFTEN DEROGATORILY) FOR DESCRIBE EASILY ACCESSIBLE ART, USUALLY LITERATURE, AND THE PEOPLE WHO USE THE ARTS TO ACQUIRE CULTURE AND "CLASS" (SOCIAL PRESTIGE)
Middle-brow; Middle brow
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If you describe a piece of entertainment such as a book or film as middlebrow, you mean that although it may be interesting and enjoyable, it does not require much thought.
...such middlebrow fare as Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and Jeeves and Wooster.
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Middlebrow
The term middlebrow describes easily accessible art, usually literature, and the people who use the arts to acquire culture and "class" (social prestige). First used in the British satire magazine Punch in 1925, the term middlebrow is the intermediary "brow" descriptor between highbrow and lowbrow, which are terms derived from the pseudoscience of phrenology.
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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, intermediary brow between the highbrow and the lowbrow forms of culture; the terms highbrow and lowbrow are borrowed from the pseudoscience of phrenology.
Examples of use of middle-brow
1. There are plenty of other rewards for middle–brow fiction.
2. "Continental hauteur" initially stood in contrast to the back–slapping egalitarianism of an eagerly middle–brow America that de Grazia describes.
3. Christie‘s tastes turn out to have been solidly middle–brow – the kind of good but unspectacular stuff collected by a woman of substance who knows what she likes and has nothing to prove.
4. Arthur and George is better than whimsy÷ it‘s a compelling, elegant if middle–brow return to form that is already being talked up as a possible Booker winner, in a year when Barnes is likely to go toe to toe once more with Ian McEwan, whose novel Amsterdam beat Barnes‘s shortlisted England, England to the Booker prize in 1''8.
5. Chairman of HIT Entertainment Prescience rating÷ 4 Janet Street–Porter 1''5 What she said÷ "British television management with few notable exceptions have always been M–people – Middle–class, Middle–brow, Middle–aged and Male, Masonic in their tendencies and, not to put too fine a point on it, fairly Mediocre." What happened next÷ Michael Buerk notwithstanding, swathes of women ascended to senior management positions, particularly under Dyke at the BBC.