The process of making something less popular or deliberately reducing its appeal to the general public.
From anti- + popularization (the act of making something popular). This is a scholarly term combining anti- with the noun form of popularize, created to discuss the reverse process of mass appeal.
In the 1960s, some intellectuals claimed classical music was undergoing antipopularization as rock became dominant—though ironically, rock eventually became the popular thing!
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