Meanings
- uncountableMiddlebrow attitudes generally; the quality of being middlebrow.
In fact, there were critics who saw middlebrowism itself as one of the aesthetic faces of Stalinism.
2001, Norman Podhoretz, Ex-Friends, page 1812 more examples
If we wish to stop this march of middlebrowism, education must revamp both its philosophy and its objectives.
1968, Henry Winthrop, Ventures in Social Interpretation, page 116As Joan Rubin observes in The Making of Middlebrow Culture, the critical backlash against middlebrowism emerged as an eleventh-hour barrier against the erosion of highbrow authority.
2021, John Howland, Hearing Luxe Pop, page 78
Origin
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