Reading: Barker [Ideology]

The definition of culture... you rear your ugly head again. From the Brits Williams, Hogart, and Hall, to the haters in Leavis and Arnold, who attempt to distinguish between the good and the bad, the high and low. High brow, anyone? Sound like "tea time" for cultural snobs to me. Or more like the Fox News of the modern era. By pinning distinctions around a certain opinion of what has aesthetic quality and what does not, the judgments of few become objective cultural criticism for the many.

Of course, if we leave the meaning of culture to the masses, the consumer driven capitalist corporate animal of popular culture emerges, as previously mentioned within this here blog. And in popular culture, Kenny G is considered a jazz great. So it turns out I might be an elitist after all.