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midcult

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mid·cult  (mdklt)
n.
A form of intellectual and artistic culture that has qualities of high culture and mass culture without being either.



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Dwight Macdonald spent all too much of the 1950s bewailing Midcult and Masscult, yet from the vantage point of 2009, the 1950s were the great age of almost universal Highcult.
The company was a lot more comfortable dealing with a safe, midcult crooner like Bing Crosby.
Book Two, "Great Performances Decline and Fall," starts after World War I and discusses the rise of professional soloists, at the expense of American composers, "the new middle classes and midcult, and the confusions of today.
 
 
 
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