James O Young

Cultural Appropriation and the Arts

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Beiderbeck 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, archaeologists, lawyers, art historians, advocates of the rights of indigenous peoples, literary critics, museum curators and others. At root, however, these questions are philosophical questions. Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781444332711
• ISBN-10: 1444332716
• Artikelnr.: 28103529

Autorenporträt

James O. Young is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria. He has published extensively on philosophy of language and philosophy of art. His previous books include Global Anti-realism (1995) and Art and Knowledge (2001), and he is editor (with Conrad Brunk) of The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1 What Is Cultural Appropriation? 1
Art, Culture, and Appropriation 1
Types of Cultural Appropriation 5
What is a Culture? 9
Objections to Cultural Appropriation 18
In Praise of Cultural Appropriation 27
2 The Aesthetics of Cultural Appropriation 32
The Aesthetic Handicap Thesis 32
The Cultural Experience Argument 34
Aesthetic Properties and Cultural Context 41
Authenticity and Appropriation 44
Authentic Appropriation 46
Cultural Experience and Subject Appropriation 55
Appropriation and the Authentic Expression of a Culture 60
3 Cultural Appropriation as Theft 63
Harm by Theft 63
Possible Owners of Artworks 64
Cultures and Inheritance 68
Lost and Abandoned Property 70
Cultural Property and Traditional Law 74
Collective Knowledge and Collective Property 78
Ownership of Land and Ownership of Art 85
Property and Value to a Culture 88
Cultures and Intellectual Property 93
Some Conclusions About Ownership and Appropriation 97
The Rescue Argument 102
4 Cultural Appropriation as Assault 106
Other Forms of Harm 106
Cultural Appropriation and Harmful Misrepresentation 107
Harm and Accurate Representation 113
Cultural Appropriation and Economic Opportunity 114
Cultural Appropriation and Assimilation 118
Art, Insignia, and Cultural Identity 120
Cultural Appropriation and Privacy 125
5 Profound Offence and Cultural Appropriation 129
Harm, Offence, and Profound Offence 129
Examples of Offensive Cultural Appropriation 131
The Problem and the Key to its Solution 134
Social Value and Offensive Art 136
Freedom of Expression 137
The Sacred and the Offensive 141
Time and Place Restrictions 143
Toleration of Offensive Art 145
Reasonable and Unreasonable Offence 147
Conclusion: Responding to Cultural Appropriation 152
Summing Up 152
Supporting Minority Artists 154
Envoy 157
Bibliography of Works Cited and Consulted 159
Index 166

Rezensionen

"Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, by James O. Young,provides an analytical, comprehensive overview of ethical andaesthetic issues concerning cultural appropriation." (Journal of Cult Economy, 25 March 2011)

"Thank goodness for James O. Young! Finally someone has cut throughthe cant associated with cultural appropriation, weighed the issueswith care and a keen eye for irony, and clarified the ethicallimits of intercultural borrowing. This concise, accessible bookwill be a bracing tonic for anyone interested in the global artmarket, cultural property, and dilemmas of social justice in aworld of disappearing borders."
-Michael F. Brown, Williams College, author of WhoOwns Native Culture?

"Young's offers a measured and sensitive analysis of the moraland aesthetic issues raised by cultural appropriation. He praisesresponsible cultural appropriation and distinguishes this fromcultural appropriation that amount to theft and assault or thatcause profound offense. An interesting contribution to a topic thathas not received the attention from aestheticians that itdeserves."
-Stephen Davies, The University of Auckland

"Here at last is a philosophical work that cuts through theprecious nonsense and rhetoric written about the kinds ofappropriation bound to occur when the arts of one people bump upagainst the arts of another. James O. Young is acutely sensitive tothe political sentiments that cloud these issues, but completelyclear and rigorous in his analysis. In its incisiveness andhonesty, Cultural Appropriation and the Arts is a majorcontribution to cross-cultural aesthetics."
-Dennis Dutton, University of Canterbury, NewZealand