The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946)
Duke Ellington and John Latouche made a number of pointed Calculator references to “highbrow” and “lowbrow” art in their 1947 musical Beggar’s Holiday.I argue that this dichotomy did more than classify; it also politicized the consumption and composition of art.Drawing upon the writings of such critics as Clement Greenberg, Dwight MacDona