“American popular culture is as old as the colonies, but the appearance of high and popular culture as distinctive categories in American life occurred around the turn of this century [1900] . . . a cultural hierarchy emerged that divided American life into ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture as a primary means of social, intellectual and aesthetic separation . . . The high and low divide created boundaries between cultural forms and social groups. We customarily think of the traditional arts (the visual arts, music, poetry, drama and literature) as high culture and contemporary entertainment (movies, popular music, pulp fiction and television) as low culture” (William Romanowski, Pop Culture Wars, p. 20).
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