Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy
Hal Foster: Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture by John Seabrook, 21 September 2000
Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture
by John Seabrook.
Methuen, 215 pp., £9.99, March 2000,0 413 74470 1 Show More
by John Seabrook.
Methuen, 215 pp., £9.99, March 2000,
“... What does a Princeton graduate whose old dream it was to write for the New Yorker do when that dream comes true, only to discover that his cherished magazine is no longer the middlebrow arbiter of high culture of his imagining, but just another media outlet frantic for its market share of mass culture? On one level Nobrow is the story of this rude awakening, the Bildungsroman of a smart ex-preppie caught between the old ‘Townhouse’ of good taste, as vetted by the New Yorker of lore, and the new ‘Megastore’ where culture and marketing are one, as exemplified by the Star Wars industry ... ”