Levine was a professor of history and cultural studies at George Mason University and the Margaret Byrne Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Best match Highest price Lowest price First editions Signed copies All copies Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (The William E. His books included Defender of the Faith: William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade, 1915-1925 (1965), Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (1977), Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (1988), The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History (1993), The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History (1996), and The People and the President: America’s Conversations with FDR (co-editor with Cornelia Levine, 2002). Highbrow/Lowbrow, by Lawrence Levine It is worth reading this book for the anecdotes about Shakespearean performance alone, but it should also be pointed out that the books argument has aged much better than have those of its disputants.

Read 35 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. In this wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century & coverin. He also investigated the patterns of American higher education and the changing conceptions of American identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The highest-rated network program during its first three seasons, comedy-variety show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC, 19681973) remains an often overlooked and underrated innovator of American television history. In this innovative historical exploration, Levine not only traces the emergence of such familiar categories as highbrow and lowbrow at the turn of the century, but helps us to understand more. Read 35 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. The results of his research provide utterly fascinating reading. Lectures in the History of American Civilization) by Levine, Lawrence(September 1, 1990) Paperback on . Levine is such a historian and his book Highbrow/Lowbrow is the result of such a conundrum.

Levine’s areas of research ranged from a study of William Jennings Bryan as a cultural symbol and spokesman for the rural culture of the American South and West to an analysis of African-American folk thought from the period of slavery to World War II. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (The William E. Lawrence Levine was a scholar of American culture and folklore. If there is a tragedy in this development, Lawrence Levine comments, it is not only that millions of Americans were now separated from exposure to such creators as Shakespeare, Beethoven, and Verdi, whom they had enjoyed in various formats for much of the nineteenth century, but also that the rigid cultural categories, once they were in place, made it so difficult for so long for so. Levine Highbrow/Lowbrow I find it peculiar that many of the authors quoted in chapter three (I am thinking particularly of some of those from the early twentieth century - Henderson and Higginson, pages 212ish and on) seem to have little concept of/desire to acknowledge cultural relativity or maybe even the general concept of relativity.

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