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Tanner, Asbridge, and Wortley (2008), analyzing musical taste among teenagers in Toronto, quantify cultural capital by creating an additive index using participation scores in traditionally highbrow activities; they find that it has a significant and substantial effect in predicting membership in the group of musical omnivores.

Since, as Swirski recites on various occasions, highbrow stands for everything elite or classic, experimental, inventive, individual, variable, artistic, intellectual, complex, rewarding, social, critical etc.

Mr Sreecharan Atluri, Managing Director, Highbrow AV said "We were looking for a communications consultancy that could support us by creating brand visibility and communicate our company's objective.

As a result, in 1875 "highbrow" became a synonym for intellectual.

VENICE: Highbrow trumped Hollywood at the Venice film festival this year, with Russian director Alexander Sokurov's demanding German-language "Faust" taking top prize while Roman Polanski and George Clooney were overlooked.Most prizes at Saturday's closing ceremony went to less-than-familiar names and faces, with the exception of rising Irish star Michael Fassbender's best actor award for "Shame."

In his proposed book, Sousa's Washington, Warfield intends to document and illuminate the interconnectedness between black and white, highbrow and lowbrow, professional and amateur, and military and civilian musicians, through a detailed investigation of the early career of John Philip Sousa.

Bourdieu used correspondence analysis techniques applied to survey data to uncover a variety of highbrow and lowbrow cultural forms and ways of appreciating them that, he argued, served to delimit and sustain class boundaries.

"Playwrights in pursuit of cultural and symbolic capital dismissed jazz as a low-class, immoral, mass-produced form," Sarvan says, adding that jazz "thereby served as the practice on which an emergent, would-be highbrow, literary theatre looked with horror, in part because it was providing the substance and style for vaudeville and musical comedy." Appropriations of jazz by such composers as George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and George Antheil irritated upper-class elites and conservative thinkers whose critical writings policed sacred boundaries in an effort to elevate the drama and redefine it as a branch of literature.

Is one not allowed to play opera for audience amusement, must it always be so highbrow that the man in the street will be excluded?

"New York Nights: Writing, Producing, and Performing in Gotham" explores the career and life of Nick Catalano, a man who has worked with countless comedians and musicians throughout his career from the highbrow works of Duke Ellington to the not-so-highbrow exploits of Jerry Seinfeld.

MELVYNB ragg has sometimes been a figure of fun - not least because of his Spitting Image puppet - but we shouldn't underestimate his contribution to arts and culture, both populist and highbrow.

The fans at Stockport County are a bit more highbrow than that, and they have launched groundforapound.com to try and inject funds.

HIGHBROW: Rafta Rafta, Birmingham Rep (January 31 to February 16)

Shyon Baumann, a sociologist at the University of Toronto, traces this shift in Hollywood Highbrow, a swift, absorbing academic study of "the acceptance of Hollywood films as art among a large segment of the public, particularly (though not exclusively) those with postsecondary education." His argument isn't that movies have improved--the works of There Will Be Blood director P.

Since Robyn Archer ended her brief reign and returned to tend her sick mother Down Under we keep hearing talk of "highbrow".