-The new forms of mass entertainment (print media, radio, TV, films, etc) generated by capitalist institution.
Because of the spread of industrialization during the 19th and 20th centuries, the capitalist engineered ways of turning high culture (previously delivered at no cost for everyone) into a commodity to make money from. This commodification demanded that folk content be redesigned for existing means of mass circulation. Due to this mass production, quality would give way for quantity.
