Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN, and this week on the Lectures and History podcast, a discussion on the rise of bohemian culture in the gilded age.

According to Professor Ryan Anderson of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, bohemian culture in the late 19th and early 20th century was a rejection of conventional

societal restraints by a group of people who also embraced the arts. The Marlmart district of Paris was a

prominent hub for bohemian artists and authors, where anti-establishment sentiment flourished, as did the

idea of community living. Some famous bohemian artists of the time include Homery de Toulouse Latrek and Vincent Van Gogh.

Professor Anderson's lecture begins right after this.

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As promised today, we're going to talk about bohemian culture at the turn of the 20th century.

And I tried to set up last week some ideas that we're going to play with today, that being

that there's this sort of high culture that is established in the late 19th century to offset

against a low popular culture that emerges and that a cultural elite came to define themselves

as a sort of like standard for behavior.

And what we're talking about today are people who rejected that standard of behavior,

because they saw the high culture of the cultural elite as something that would prevent the United States

from making any sort of cultural progress moving forward. So in a lot of ways

the Bohemians were talking about are sort of alternatives, right? They're alternative people.

The Bohemian culture is a sort of counterculture of sorts. People who believed they were

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