Us and them is the cultural problem, not Pomp and Circumstance | Lynsey Hanley

The kind of elitism that leaves so many ignorant of Elgar reinforces social divisions – marked by culture as much as cashThere are more ways of divvying people up than according to how much money they've got. A survey this week by Reader's Digest concluded that a large proportion of Britain is culturally impoverished, with one-third of those surveyed never having listened to classical music and three-quarters unable to identify Edward Elgar as the composer of Pomp and Circumstance.While I can'...

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