I noticed this in an article by Terry Teachout in the April '05 Commentary entitled, "Singing the Classical Music Blues."
While reading his piece, I saw parallels to the condition of establishment literature. Teachout quotes critic Joseph Horowitz, who calls the art a "potted hothouse product . . . Sustained by a lifeline to the universities . . . lacking a constituency beyond themselves," and says its proponents have "produced an undistinguished species of hermetic art."
Are Teachout and Horowitz talking about aristocratic music or aristocratic literature?
Making an intellectual leap to see that what happened to classical music is happening to literature is beyond your capabilities.
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