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Midcult vs Masscult - What's the difference?

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Masscult is a related term of midcult.



As nouns the difference between midcult and masscult

is that midcult is a form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture while masscult is the modern industrial equivalent of culture, mass-produced and anonymously consumed, without specialization or connoisseurship.

midcult

English

Noun

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  • A form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.

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    * masscult

    masscult

    English

    Noun

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  • The modern industrial equivalent of culture, mass-produced and anonymously consumed, without specialization or connoisseurship.
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    • , passage=? THE BAD PLUS (Tomorrow) With its fifth studio album, “Prog” (Do the Math), this trio ventures further along a distinctive and adventurous path; the bassist Reid Anderson, the pianist Ethan Iverson and the drummer David King sound as committed as ever, and their alchemy of masscult allusions and highbrow inventions still has the power to overwhelm. }}

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    * midcult