Cultural appropriation and the arts / James O. Young.
Material type: TextSeries: New directions in aesthetics ; 6.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008Description: xiv, 168 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1405176563
- 9781405176569
- 700.103 22
- NX180.S6 Y66 2008
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700.103 VIS Visual culture / | 700.103 VIS Visual culture : the reader / | 700.103 WAL Visual culture : an introduction / | 700.103 YOU Cultural appropriation and the arts / | 700.10308 DIS Disrupted borders : an intervention in definitions of boundaries / | 700.103082 KOR Gender and aesthetics : an introduction / | 700.10308693 OUT Out there : marginalization and contemporary cultures / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-165) and index.
What is cultural appropriation? -- The aesthetics of cultural appropriation -- Cultural appropriation as theft -- Cultural appropriation as assault -- Profound offence and cultural appropriation -- Conclusion: responding to cultural appropriation.
"Cultural appropriation is a pervasive feature of the contemporary world. The Parthenon Marbles remain in London. Works of art from indigenous cultures are held by many metropolitan museums. White musicians from Bix Beiderbecke to Eric Clapton have appropriated musical styles from African-American culture. From North America to Australasia, artists have appropriated motifs and stories from aboriginal cultures. Novelists and filmmakers from one culture have taken as their subject matter the lives and practices of members of other cultures." "The practice of cultural appropriation has given rise to important ethical and aesthetic questions. Can cultural appropriation result in the production of aesthetically successful works of art? Is cultural appropriation in the arts morally objectionable? These questions have been widely debated by anthropologists, lawyers, art historians, advocates of the rights of indigenous peoples, literary critics, museum curators, and others. At root, however, these questions are philosophical. Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise."--Jacket.
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