HIGH AND LOW

What’s the different between “high” culture and “low” culture, anyway? Between Mozart and Madonna, Picasso and the World Wide Wrestling Federation? Is one superior to the other? Not necessarily. The old cultural arbiters, whose job was to decide what was `good’ in the sense of `valuable,’ have largely been replaced by a new type of arbiter, whose skill was to define “good” in terms of “popular.” Ignore them at your peril. – Chicago Tribune