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For the love of....Intelligence, and hence education, are unevenly distributed, and therefore, by its nature, popular culture is doomed to be fairly vulgar. Also, mediocrity is the mean, towards which everything regresses. Most music of any period is mediocre, as are most books, most plays, etc. There is one Elizabethan playwright commonly known to non- specialists: Shakespeare. Most "classical music" was produced in German speaking lands (my son used to call it "German music"), we do not know why. Most of the great novels are in English or Russian, we do not know why. Most great cinema is either American (whatever the origin of the director) or French, although one finds a Bergman here, a Fellini there:we do not know why.... |
