Mass culture: otupleniye of the people or recognition of its interests?

The provision of high culture was at all times shaky. Aristocrats relied on storytellers of humble origin and actors; tragedies were vulgarized by comedies and the audience, music — Stravinsky's melodies or Sviridov's romances … The highest education opened to Goethe's people, and they listen to a rap and bloggers. But why Pushkin will not fall in any way from the present ship? Whether combinations "high" and "low" are inconsistent — or so the culture develops? .