A vast cultural-mass labor force far exceeds cultural producers in size.

Evidence

Dwarfing all of this, however, is what Daniel Bell (1978, 20) calls ‘the cultural mass’ defined as: not the creators of culture but the transmitters: those working in higher education, publishing, magazines, broadcast media, theater, and museums, who process and influence the reception of serious cultural products. It is in itself large enough to be a market for culture, purchase books, prints and serious music recordings. And it is also the group which, as writers, magazine editors, movie-makers, musicians, and so forth, produce the popular materials for the wider mass-culture audience. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1832

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Daniel Bell’s ‘cultural mass’ as transmitters, not creators, of culture.
• XREF: connects to: Cultural overproduction reinforces megastar dominance rather than enabling creative renaissance — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 695

Broader Connections

• Cultural overproduction reinforces megastar dominance rather than enabling creative renaissance #expands (0.90) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 695