Enter Culture, Exit Arts? —— The Transformation Of Cultural Hierarchies In European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960?2010

----- 进入文化、退出艺术？：欧洲报纸文化部分的文化层级转换 1960-2010

ISBN: 9781138740556 出版年：2018 页码：274 Semi Purhonen Riie Heikki Taylor & Francis

Key debates of contemporary cultural sociology 鈥?the rise of the 鈥榗ultural omnivore鈥? the fate of classical 鈥榟ighbrow鈥?culture, the popularization, commercialization and globalization of culture 鈥?deal with temporal changes. Yet, systematic research about these processes is scarce due to the lack of suitable longitudinal data. This book explores these questions through the lens of a crucial institution of cultural mediation 鈥?the culture sections in quality European newspapers 鈥?from 1960 to 2010. Starting from the framework of cultural stratification and employing systematic content analysis both quantitative and qualitative of more than 13,000 newspaper articles, Enter Culture, Exit Arts? presents a synthetic yet empirically rich and detailed account of cultural transformation in Europe over the last five decades. It shows how classifications and hierarchies of culture have changed in course of the process towards increased cultural heterogeneity. Furthermore, it conceptualizes the key trends of rising popular culture and declining highbrow arts as two simultaneous processes: the one of legitimization of popular culture and the other of popularization of traditional legitimate culture, both important for the loosening of the boundary between 鈥榟ighbrow鈥?and 鈥榩opular鈥? Through careful comparative analysis and illustrative snapshots into the specific socio-historical contexts in which the newspapers and their representations of culture are embedded 鈥?in Finland, France, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the UK 鈥?the book reveals the key patterns and diversity of European variations in the transformation of cultural hierarchies since the 1960s. The book is a collective endeavour of a large-scale international research project active between 2013 and 2018.