This article uses a new 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, showing how over the long Gilded Age the social elite of New York attended the Philharmonic both increasingly and in more socially patterned ways. Yet they also find that the orchestra opened up to a new group of subscribers hailing from an emerging professional, managerial, and intellectual middle class. Importantly, the inclusion of this new audience was segregated: they did not mingle with elites in the concert hall. This segregated inclusion paved a specific way for the constitution of cultural capital. It meant that greater purity and greater inclusiveness happened together, enabling elite cultural participation to remain distinctive while elite tastes acquired broader social currency.

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文化资本如何在镀金时代的美国兴起：纽约爱乐乐团的音乐净化和跨阶级包容

本文使用纽约爱乐乐团订阅者的新数据库来探索高级文化如何在 19 世纪后期的美国成为一种具有社会价值的资本形式。作者找到了对高级文化净化和排他性的经典描述的支持，展示了在镀金时代，纽约的社会精英如何越来越多地以更社会化的方式参加爱乐乐团。然而，他们还发现，管弦乐队向一群来自新兴专业、管理和知识分子中产阶级的新订户敞开心扉。重要的是，这些新观众的加入是隔离的：他们没有与音乐厅的精英打成一片。这种隔离的包容为文化资本的构成铺平了道路。