Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste, (Paperback)

from alissamarie

I found his analysis of different taste cultures to be helpful, but pretty much flat-out disagree with a lot of what he implies. Would have been much better to do a full update of this book, rather than a postscript that allows the writer to dodge inconsistencies between old text and current real...

from alissamarie

I found his analysis of different taste cultures to be helpful, but pretty much flat-out disagree with a lot of what he implies. Would have been much better to do a full update of this book, rather than a postscript that allows the writer to dodge inconsistencies between old text and current real...

from alissamarie

I found his analysis of different taste cultures to be helpful, but pretty much flat-out disagree with a lot of what he implies. Would have been much better to do a full update of this book, rather than a postscript that allows the writer to dodge inconsistencies between old text and current real...

from deanmachine

Gans does a nice job of debunking certain elitist assumptions about the effects of popular culture that too often go unchallenged.