popularist

noun4

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An artist or composer whose work appeals to popular tastes.
- Three composers in the study are undoubted popularists. — 1954
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One who adapts and popularizes a subject.
- Did Alan Watts (1915–1973), one of the first Western popularists of Zen, have it right when he described Zen Art as the “art of artlessness, the art of controlled accident” (Watts 1994)? — 2012
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On who advocates populism.
- In their view the 'nascent leader' is a transient type which will develop into either a 'leader' or 'popularist'. — 1987
One who explains social phenomena in terms of popular responses and habits.

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