John Summers

John Summers writes and lectures widely on American history and culture.

Masscult and Midcult

In Masscult & Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain, first published in 1962, MacDonald turned his formidable critical attention to what he saw as a new, and potentially catastrophic, development in the history of Western civilization: the influence-by turns distorting, destructive, and inadvertently ridiculous-of mass culture on high culture.

Category: Essays, Criticism and Philosophy
Publisher: NYRB Classics
 
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