an integral part of our lives is a leisure activity.Someone reading detective stories and listening to pop music, and someone attends symphony concerts and becomes acquainted with the works of classical writers.
elite culture, signs of which are listed below, refers to the second way to meet the aesthetic and intellectual needs.Apart from it, there are also the mass culture and popular culture.They, too, have certain characteristics.
few words about the other kinds of crops
mass culture, for example, is designed for the overwhelming part of society, those people whose world view has no outstanding features.As a rule, citizens with secondary education, workers in manufacturing or in services.
Popular culture does not have a precise portrait of the consumer.It simply reflects the well-established tradition in certain communities.Preference folk culture with its other species can not talk about the level of intellectual development.
Signs "mass" and "nationality" were discussed above in general terms and only for the difference was visible to the subject under discussion.Elite culture, signs of which are quite difficult to describe in a nutshell, is intended for the segment of the population, which is called the intelligentsia.On this and its other features will be discussed in more detail below.
elite culture.Signs
So, it was mentioned about the target audience.The intelligentsia - is, as a rule, people, workers in the intellectual sphere.These include teachers, scientists, museums, libraries, artists, writers, composers and others.However, you can not be categorical and state that the office worker (for example) can not be the judge of the masterpieces of elite culture.
What are these masterpieces?Often they are deservedly called a classic.This literary work, the relevance of which only intensified after hundreds and hundreds of years.This opera, sonnets, symphony, ballet, theater, art and monuments of great artists talented sculptors.
In general, we can say that the subject under discussion was created for centuries.Elite culture, signs of which we highlight it in many ways - the creation of our predecessors.But to say that the results of the spiritual and intellectual activity of our contemporaries may be classed only for the next "mass trinkets", it is also impossible.
That's not all signs of elite culture.It is interesting that it has even a certain theme.It reads: "Art for art's sake."And here you can immediately see the difference with the mass (money above cultural value) and folk (vestments traditions, customs and beliefs of a particular ethnic community in physical, verbal or written) cultures.
elite culture.Examples
- serious music (Bach, Mozart, Schnittke and Tchaikovsky, and so on. D.).
- highbrow literature (Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Ulysses, Kafka, Shakespeare, and so on. D.).
- Fine Arts (Michelangelo, Rodin, Eiffel, Gropius, Da Vinci, Van Gogh, and so on. D.).
