A Theory of Mass Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3895293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dwight Macdonald (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1953 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 1953-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/039219215300100301 |
| OpenAlex | W2092253014 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
For about a century, Western culture has really been two cultures: the traditional kind-let us call it 'High Culture'-that is chronicled in the textbooks, and a 'Mass Culture' manufactured wholesale for the market. In the old art forms, the artisans of Mass Culture have long been at work: in the novel, the line stretches from Eugène Süe to Lloyd C. Douglas; in music, from Offenbach to tin-pan alley; in art, from the chromo to Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell; in architecture, from Victorian Gothic to suburban Tudor. Mass Culture has also developed new media of its own, into which the serious artist rarely ventures: radio, the movies, comic books, detective stories, science-fiction, television
Mass culture · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Globalization and Cultural Identity
Alliance of Ummah in Rural Areas
Murder and Emancipation
What Is Video Game Culture? Cultural Studies and Game Studies
Group Power
Towards a cultural sociology of popular music
A Good Body
The big nothing? Contemporary culture and the emergence of postmodernism
Pop (Culture) Goes the Organization
Like him or loathe him
Kitsch, romance fiction and male paranoia
Approaches to Law and Popular Culture
The Theory That Won't Die
Social inequality and art institutions
Don't Believe the Hype
Mass cultures, popular cultures and the working class in Milan, 1950–70∗
Qualitative criteria and cultural policy
The rise and fall of highbrow snobbery as a status marker
Mass culture and the modern world-system
Contemporary popular music
We kind of music
Popular Music and Materiality
The taste for popular music
Massifícation revisited
Country music and its city cousin
A re‐assessment of the ‘mass culture’ controversy
Tourism spatial organization of historical streets – A postmodern perspective
Seeing Through Pictures
Reinstating Popular Culture
Frieda Hennock
Popular Appeal Versus Expert Judgments of Motion Pictures
An Ironic Fad
Malling as a Leisure Activity in South Korea
Popular Communication After Globalization
The future of art and mass culture
Culture and Competition
Classification in Art
The Old Men and the “Sea of Masscult
The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics
Ästhetik im Alltag
Cultural policy and the meaning of modern and post‐modern taste, with concluding remarks on the case of Sweden
Reassessing the Gap
Of Auction Records and Non-Fungible Tokens
Paratextual Negotiations
The Black Fandom Identification Social–Psychological Model
The cultural omnivore hypothesis applied to reading habits
Socioeconomic status and leisure preferences
The long tale of the long tail
Defacing’ in photography and ‘blocking’ on social media
Crime, media and the will-to-representation
Whatever Happened to the Social in American Social Thought? Part 1
Whatever Happened to the Social in American Social Thought? Part 2
(In)authenticity work
Kitsch, City Planning, and New Urbanism
Making looking public
Television, Consumption and the Commodity Form
Popular Culture and its Sociology
The academic practice of television criticism
From the Ringstraße to Madison Avenue
Terrorism and the Rise of Right-Wing Content in Israeli Books
Child's play
Does popular culture bridge cultural holes? A study of a literary taste system using unimodal network projections
Opportunities for ethnography in the sociology of music
War, Words and Self-Perpetuating Force
Culture populaire et séries télévisées
The commercial and regional imagery of big things
Reconceptualizing and Theorizing 'Omnivorousness
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| Unique citing works | 67 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,26 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2026 (54) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |