Elite Culture and the Working Class: Week 2 Monday

I was very interested to learn about the development of popular culture from its beginnings as a working class movement and into the early 20th century. I was surprised to hear in the lecture about how the different classes of society all shared and esteemed the same values, and had similar experiences with art and music. I was somewhat aware of the cultural intermingling of social classes, but hasn't there always been some cultural separation? Isn't folk culture typically associated with mass culture and high culture associated with the elite class?