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My argument is... that we are moving towards the creation of a mass culture; that the remnants of what was at least in parts an urban culture 'of the people' are being destroyed; and that the new mass culture is in some important ways less healthy than the often crude culture it is replacing.

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Almost all of us at some time settle for trash, even though we may know better.

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Compared even with the pub around the corner, this is all a peculiarly thin and pallid form of dissipation, a sort of spiritual dry-rot amid the odour of boiled milk.

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Richard Hoggart

Richard Hoggart

Born: September 24, 1918
Died: April 10, 2014 (aged 95)
Bio: Herbert Richard Hoggart was a British academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.
Known for:
  1. The Uses of Literacy (1957)
  2. La Culture du pauvre (1970)
  3. Everyday language & everyday life (2003)
  4. Mass media in a mass society (2004)
  5. The Way We Live Now (1995)

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