This article uses an INCITE-created database of subscribers to the New York Philharmonic to explore how high culture became a form of socially valuable capital in late-19th-century America. The authors find support for the classic account of high culture’s purification and exclusiveness.
Read MoreThis database — which was digitized and archived by INCITE — contains the names, addresses, and seat locations for Philharmonic subscribers dating back to the 19th century.
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