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What (who) is middlebrow - 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
middlebrow
¦ adjective informal demanding, involving, or having only a moderate degree of intellectual application.
middlebrow
also middle-brow
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 middlebrow
1. Now the game has become middlebrow and middle–class.
2. Sometimes it feels as if the entire enterprise is a middlebrow Dadaist experiment.
3. As the prince of Saturday night television, with an estate in Devon, he was surfing the crest of a middlebrow wave and reaping the rewards.
4. The kind of intelligent middlebrow of Hollywoods past is now more likely to be found on HBO÷ Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Oz, Deadwood, or even the innovative comedy of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
5. They both peddle a kind of middlebrow entertainment; if no star of the magnitude of Sinatra or Sills has come out of "American Idol," well, give Bo Bice some time.