"middle-browism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1996, C. Bloom, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory, page 113:",
          "text": "The fear of corporatism, consumerism, middle-browism and a mass reading public has driven twentieth-century cultural hierarchists.",
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          "ref": "2012, David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Daniel Goldmark, Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries, page 111:",
          "text": "As these emulations might suggest, this broad jazz-with-strings repertory is closely related to midcentury trends in American \"middle-browism,\" a connection especially prominent in this music's overriding glorified entertainment aesthetic and its often presumed dilutions of \"higher\" musical traditions.",
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          "text": "In the lecture, Briggs warned of the dangers of what Macdonald called 'middle-browism', and elsewhere expressed his concern that the acquisitive society was not only creating passive work but also passive leisure, 'a parody of social democracy'.",
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