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:When culture can be '''bought and sold''', [[taste]] becomes an increasingly useful social marker. It was commerce that gave 'culture' to the middle classes, but commerce could also sully it. So the Georgians set about building a national culture - from the plays of Shakespeare to the music of Handel - that only the qualified could properly enjoy. As this culture widened, paradoxically the separation of [[high]] and [[low]] ('polite' and 'vulgar') sharpened. -- [[John Mullan]] :When culture can be '''bought and sold''', [[taste]] becomes an increasingly useful social marker. It was commerce that gave 'culture' to the middle classes, but commerce could also sully it. So the Georgians set about building a national culture - from the plays of Shakespeare to the music of Handel - that only the qualified could properly enjoy. As this culture widened, paradoxically the separation of [[high]] and [[low]] ('polite' and 'vulgar') sharpened. -- [[John Mullan]]
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*[[Value (economics)]] -- the market worth or estimated worth of commodities, services, assets, or work. *[[Value (economics)]] -- the market worth or estimated worth of commodities, services, assets, or work.
*[[Value theory]] -- in ethics, aesthetics and other evaluative matters *[[Value theory]] -- in ethics, aesthetics and other evaluative matters
-*[[Value (law)]] 
*[[Value (semiotics)]] *[[Value (semiotics)]]
==See also== ==See also==
 +*[[Artistic merit]]
*[[Anthropological theories of value]] *[[Anthropological theories of value]]
*[[Theory of value]] for more general discussions of economic value. *[[Theory of value]] for more general discussions of economic value.
*[[Moral character]] *[[Moral character]]
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When culture can be bought and sold, taste becomes an increasingly useful social marker. It was commerce that gave 'culture' to the middle classes, but commerce could also sully it. So the Georgians set about building a national culture - from the plays of Shakespeare to the music of Handel - that only the qualified could properly enjoy. As this culture widened, paradoxically the separation of high and low ('polite' and 'vulgar') sharpened. -- John Mullan


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