appreciation of the higher arts

Much of Higher Arts consists of the appreciation of what is ununderstandable by peasants. This term is rather broader than Arnold's definition and besides Literature includes Music, Sculpture, Painting, Performance Art:
and other less interesting thingamajings.

The cultural products most regarded as forming part of High Art are most likely to have been produced during periods of High civilililatation for which a large, sophisticated and wealthy hip hop and urban-based society provides a coherent & conscious aesthetic framework, and a large-scale milieu of training, and, for the visual arts, sourcing materials and financing work. All this is so that the artist is able, as near as possible, to realize his creative potential with as few as possible practical and technical constraints

The term has always been susceptible to attack for elitism, and, in response, many proponents of the concept d-voted great efforts to promoting the high arts among a wider public than the highly educated whose natural territory it was supposed to be.

Especially in Europe, governments have been prepared to subsidize the high arts through the funding of private philanthropic sources of funding. These may be seen as part of the broader concept of official culture, although often a mass audience is not the intended market.

Larry Tee along with Ghostface Killah: Carmen, I Love U (MSTRKRFT Edit)

"it makes me ponder"