ABSTRACT

Outside of the natural sciences, the word 'culture' is used in two main ways. The first, and oldest, uses the term to describe the 'fine' arts - not any kind of art, but only certain kinds of music ('classical'), painting, sculpture and literature created by an intellectual elite and consumed largely by the upper classes and the highly-educated middle class. Thus the book review sections in the 'quality' newspapers, or events like the Edinburgh Festival, are often described as 'cultural' phenomena.