Description: From John Seabrook, one of our most incisive and amusing cultural critics, comes Nobrow, a fascinatingly original look at the commercialization of taste.<P>In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was commercial and mass-produced. Those distinctions have been eradicated by a new cultural landscape where "good" means popular, where artists show their work at Kmart, Titanic becomes a bestselling classical album, and Roseanne Barr guest edits The New Yorker: in short, a culture of nobrow. Combining social commentary, memoir, and profiles of the potentates and purveyors of pop culture -- entertainment mogul David Geffen, MTV President Judy McGrath, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Nobrow high-priest George Lucas, and others -- Seabrook offers an enthralling look at our breakneck society, where culture is ruled by the unpredictable Buzz and where even aesthetic worth is measured by units shipped.

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