Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class
- ISBN-10
- 080144814X
- ISBN-13
- 9780801448140
- Category
- Black people
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Belinda Edmondson
Description
It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture--which is considered derivative of Europe--and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities as salsa, carnival, calypso, and reggae. This book recovers a middle ground, a genuine popular culture in the English-speaking Caribbean that stretches back into the nineteenth century. It shows that popular novels, beauty pageants, and music festivals are examples of Caribbean culture that are mostly created, maintained, and consumed by the Anglophone middle class. Much of middle-class culture is further gendered as "female": women are more apt to be considered recreational readers of fiction, for example, and women's behavior outside the home is often taken as a measure of their community's respectability. The book also highlights the influence of American popular culture, especially African American popular culture, as early as the nineteenth century.
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