“High” and “Low” Culture?

When gradations are placed on culture, we begin to put value judgments on which one is superior to another. For example, in All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes, Kenneth Myers asserts that there are three types of culture: high culture, folk culture, and low culture. Myers categorizes “high” culture as culture arising from a European heritage. “High” culture is Bach, Rembrandt, classical music, European art, and the theater (ballet and opera, not Broadway musicals). “Low” culture is Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Andy Warhol’s soup cans, television that is not Masterpiece Theater,…