Changes in the society - musical

There used to be a huge and obvious gap between high and low culture where only elites are associate with high culture and only the lower class are associate with low culture. 

Our society changes as the time passed by. Now there's middle class people between upper class people, which also known as elites, and lower class people. It also have some changes between both high and low culture as this happened. For example, only the elites are able to watch opera, play, ballet and musical. But now a lot of middle-class people are able to watch musical as the musicals nowadays started to develop some characteristics of pop-culture, such as songs' genre, dances, and plots. 

Hamilton, a musical and a Broadway show that has been running since 2013 has included both high and low culture in it. Singing , acting and dancing are always included in almost every musical, just like high culture's operas, plays and ballets. But to attract more people from different community, the creator of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda included pop-culture in songs and dances, such as hip-hop, pop, rapping, and R&B. As a result of putting both cultures in a musical, it doesn't only attract middle-class and low-class audiences but also upper-class audiences, such as the British Royal Family. 

Now there are even movies based on musicals which makes the musicals even more mass-distributed, such as  Les Misérables. Not just that, there are also some pop-culture movies started to develop into a musical, such as Frozen, Shrek and Spongebob Squarepants. 


References and Bibliography:

Artpulse. (2014) 'High Art versus Pop Culture Special Artpulse Magazine Edition with an International Survey and Various Essays'. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/37657900/High_Art_versus_Pop_Culture_Special_Artpulse_Magazine_Edition_with_an_International_Survey_and_Various_Essays [Accessed on 29th December 2018]

Marshall, A. (2018) 'It’s ‘Hamilton’ And Prince Harry, Together Onstage'. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/theater/uk-prince-harry-hamilton.html. [Accessed on 29th December 2018]

Miranda, L, M and McCarter, J. (2016) ‘Hamilton The Revolution'. New York, New York: Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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