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High brow or low brow?

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petallus Thu 26-Jul-12 13:15:45

Are you high brown or low brow?

Do you have to be one or the other or is it possible to be both at the same time?

I like Coronation Street on the tele and heavy stuff at the threatre.

Wondered what others thought.

Joan Sun 05-Aug-12 02:26:05

I meant to put the copied but in italics but it didn't work.

petallus Sun 05-Aug-12 10:43:22

Yay, somebody else who likes Welsh male voice choir!

I am wondering whether it could be seen as just a little arrogant to be ABSOLUTELY sure that modern art is a con.

As I remarked earlier I went to a Tracy Emin exhibition in London earlier in the year and found it very moving.

Damien Hirst? Interesting but didn't do a lot for me.

Annobel Sun 05-Aug-12 11:15:58

High brow vs low brow? This is the 21st Century - we mix and match. I love Mozart but enjoy Country and Western and Queen; like Trollope, George Elliot, Jane Austen, Ian McEwan; get absorbed in Marian Keyes and the late lamented Maeve Binchy.

kittylester Sun 05-Aug-12 11:47:14

I too was wondering petallus who decides what is high or low brow and agree with Annobel that we should enjoy what we enjoy without being judged!

My husband loves Modern Jazz but I love Country Music. The reason for our difference is, I think, that I love the story in songs and he likes the intricacies of (very peculiar!!) modern jazz!

Are either of us high brow or low brow? Or beyond the pale!

jeni Sun 05-Aug-12 12:40:17

Welsh men singing cum Rhonda!

Anagram Sun 05-Aug-12 12:42:33

Isn't middle brow a term? Couldn't we all be that? Or is that a bit boring? grin

feetlebaum Sun 05-Aug-12 13:04:16

@Jeni - it's "Cwm Rhonda" - Cwm (like 'Coombe') meaning valley.

jeni Sun 05-Aug-12 13:22:38

Sincere apologies ! I can't pronounce that place that begins with a y and I call bargoed, ystrid monach or something!

petallus Sun 05-Aug-12 16:51:13

My grandparents lived in Cwmtillery, coal miners.