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Diva-lution: how did an opera term get co-opted by popular culture?
Should the word "diva" be retired, as an overused moniker that is now essentially meaningless? The search engine Google, for example, lists more than two million internet sites for diva. Trawling through even a fraction reveals that the word itself has the elasticity of Flubber. Has the populist impulse, impelled by an egalitarian ethos skeptical of elitism, hollowed out the more traditional and accepted hierarchy of talent that for so many years informed critical taste and public reception? What, if anything, does it mean to proclaim an artist a diva in an age of manufactured talent devoted to the constant churn of fashion and itself hostage to the fickle taste of a ...
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