For most things I hate the low consecration end but for like horror movies, why are we being picky here? Also, for TV it looks all low consecration to me.
re: ellen/oprah - you may not consider them top-tier, but their peers/competition and they most definitely are consistently decent daytime tv that show consideration to guests and audience. Competition: Dr Phil, Geraldo Rivera, Rikki Lake, etc. Like the "...you are not the father!" schticks, "cash me outside howbow dat" etc. Ellen may be a terrible human and boss, but the show's cachet was built on her likeability.
I also feel like Britney Spears even in the cultural significance or "cool" category is not really low. She deserves more respect and probably should at least have been medium.
@TenderLovingKiller® I don't think it's a mistake to focus on the "high consecration" stuff, since the thesis is that someone with high status taste not only likes a broad range, but that their engagement is very shallow. Overall it reads like gatekeeping/canonization of culture to me, and from a pretty predictable worldview.
@Indymisanthrope i guess I miss the “gatekeeping” portion of it and I am hardly an academic so forgive me if I missed something but the way I am reading it is they let “society” determine what was low/medium/high consecration based on data, I am sure the data would skew more white and wealthy as a whole as society typically holds white/wealthy things in higher regard (from a class/elite standpoint).
The point is that it’s changing and maybe 30 years ago it was deemed “cool” to be into Alternative rock and write off Country or Hip-Hip it is now considered “cool” to have shallow depth across styles and genres.
I think using the Grammys as part of "letting society determine consecration level" is a big miss since it has such a strong reputation of being a popularity contest. think they miss the mark on that metric and their rating is very muddied but also very restricted by limiting everything to pop, which is a very small subset of music. Not choosing bands with higher metacritic ratings but no Grammy makes this apparent.