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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> For the record, though, I was attributing the
disdain to the teen
whose
> overheard pronouncements got me thinking about the
general attitude
that
> nothing new is any good, that it's not even worth
considering until
it's
> withstood the test of time.
It's worth bearing in mind that pretty much everything we now
think of as 'high art' - the plays of Shakespeare, the music
of Mozart, the novels of Melville - is simply the popular
culture of the distant past (or rather that part of the
popular culture which has withstood 'the test of time').
We're already witnessing the process by which more recent
examples of popular culture - the novels of Jame M. Cain, the
films of Howard Hawks - make this transition, becoming
respectable objects for academic study.
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