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Comparing cultural hierarchies: Classifications of high and popular culture in American, Dutch, French, and German newspapers 1955-2005
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Paper prepared for the 100
th
Annual Meeting of ASA, Philadelphia, August 13-16, 2005
Submitted to the organizer of the regular session on Popular Culture
Comparing cultural hierarchies
Classifications of high and popular culture in
American, Dutch, French and German newspapers 1955-2005
Susanne Janssen, Giselinde Kuipers and Marc Verboord
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Department for the Study of the Arts and Culture
A B S T R A C T
In the second half of the twentieth century, cultural classification systems – that is, the ways in which members of particular societies classify cultural products and develop corre-sponding rules of behavior and practices – in Western societies seem to have undergone significant changes, that appear closely connected to wider (intra and inter) societal devel-opments. In this paper, we examine the hierarchical dimension of these classification sys-tems, and test the hypothesis that traditional cultural hierarchies have eroded over time. This will be achieved by means of a comparative study of the newspaper coverage of arts and culture in four different countries – France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States – in the period 1955-2005. The countries under investigation are expected to differ substantially, due to variations in cultural tradition, market orientation, commercialization, social mobility, and state intervention. This paper presents an empirical analysis of cross-national variations in (i) the amount of newspaper coverage given to ‘high’ and popular cul-tural forms and (ii) the journalistic genres and formats employed in this coverage. Key words: cultural classification; cultural hierarchies; high art; popular culture; art journal-ism; newspaper coverage; commercialization; cross-national differences; comparative analysis, longitudinal design; France; Germany; the Netherlands; United States Postal address: FHK/ Department for the Study of the Arts and Culture Erasmus University P.O. Box 1738 NL-3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands E-mail:
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Paper prepared for the 100
th
Annual Meeting of ASA, Philadelphia, August 13-16, 2005
Submitted to the organizer of the regular session on Popular Culture
Comparing cultural hierarchies
Classifications of high and popular culture in
American, Dutch, French and German newspapers 1955-2005
Susanne Janssen, Giselinde Kuipers and Marc Verboord
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Department for the Study of the Arts and Culture
A B S T R A C T
In the second half of the twentieth century, cultural classification systems – that is, the
ways in which members of particular societies classify cultural products and develop corre-
sponding rules of behavior and practices – in Western societies seem to have undergone
significant changes, that appear closely connected to wider (intra and inter) societal devel-
opments. In this paper, we examine the hierarchical dimension of these classification sys-
tems, and test the hypothesis that traditional cultural hierarchies have eroded over time.
This will be achieved by means of a comparative study of the newspaper coverage of arts
and culture in four different countries – France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United
States – in the period 1955-2005. The countries under investigation are expected to differ
substantially, due to variations in cultural tradition, market orientation, commercialization,
social mobility, and state intervention. This paper presents an empirical analysis of cross-
national variations in (i) the amount of newspaper coverage given to ‘high’ and popular cul-
tural forms and (ii) the journalistic genres and formats employed in this coverage.
Key words: cultural classification; cultural hierarchies; high art; popular culture; art journal-
ism; newspaper coverage; commercialization; cross-national differences; comparative
analysis, longitudinal design; France; Germany; the Netherlands; United States
Postal address:
FHK/ Department for the Study of the Arts and Culture
Erasmus University
P.O. Box 1738
NL-3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail:
s.## email not listed ##
## email not listed ##
## email not listed ##
First draft – Please do not cite without permission of the authors
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