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Given his recklessly eccentric personal life, Michael Jackson’s premature death seems almost destined—one of those deaths Yeats
Given his recklessly eccentric personal life, Michael Jackson’s premature death seems almost destined—one of those deaths Yeats
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2015-06-24
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Given his recklessly eccentric personal life, Michael Jackson’s premature death seems almost destined—one of those deaths Yeats had in mind when he wrote of a friend’s lost son: "What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?"
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Still,the global outpouring of grief and craziness of public attentionfocused since Thursday on Jackson’s death is an acknowledgment not only of his popularity but of the reach and influence of America’s most successful export: popular culture.
Jackson was an icon and, in the end, perhaps, a prisoner of that now all-pervasive, world-encompassing force.
American popular culture’s triumphant appeal around the world is the product of several forces: First among them is this country’s historic dislike to assigning distinct values to high and low culture.【F2】
Some would say that a fair playing field has opened high culture—literature and classical music, for example—to a valuable interaction with popular media and made it more vigorous by forcing it to compete for its audience.
The real strength of American popular culture, in fact, is its democratic impulse—a willingness to take into account the reality that, for most people, entertainment is an end in itself.【F3】
American entertainment bows to what economists call "consumer sovereignty," and Jackson’s popularity, with its demonstrable impact on music, dance and fashion, was a clear example of that.
On cable TV and on newspaper websites, it was all Michael, all the time.【F4】
So, how did a pop singer heavily in debt and desperately hoping for a comeback, one who was best known for his bizarre life, obsession with cosmetic surgery, become in death the most beloved media figure since JFK?
To understand, you need to go back to that all-conquering popular culture. America’s serious news media—whether print, broadcast or cable—are in the grip of a collective nervous breakdown. Embracing popular culture and its icons seems somehow remedial on several levels: It appears to address chargesthat seriousmedia areelitist,as well as themanifest indifferenceof younger readersand viewers to conventional news.【F5】
Then there’s the fact of simple, cruel commerce: popular culture in the form of film, music and TV now provides an outsized share of the financially strapped media’s advertising revenue.
Finally, there’s that source of the news media’s anxiety and confusion—and that great enabler of popular culture—the Internet.
【F2】
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答案
一些人认为公平竞争的环境已经将高雅文化——例如文学和古典音乐——放到一个与大众媒体相互借鉴的位置,这是很宝贵的,而且这迫使高雅文化与大众文化博取观众,使之变得更加强而有力。
解析
a valuable interaction表示的是“高雅文化可以和大众媒体相互借鉴”这件事是非常宝贵的,因此可以采用分译法,将valuable单独提出来;by forcing it看似是主动结构,但实际上并未出现逻辑主语,译为“迫使”,可化主动为被动。
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