A bracing of the problem of authenticity in America - in racial politics, in the arts and in the media - and the first collection of original essays from one of America's most important and most galvanizing intellectual firebrands Another dance of the bull through the china shop…
Brings together essays written by experienced teachers to assist in the design, implementation, and revision of college-level music history courses. This book provides a systematic outline of practical teaching advice on various facets of music history pedagogy, including course…
Debating Authenticity
"The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of mod…
The volume provides a critical assessment of the concept of authenticity and gauges its role, significance and shortcomings in a variety of disciplinary contexts. Many of the contributions communicate with each other and thus acknowledge the enormous significance of this politic…
"An impressively thorough treatment of the themes of sincerity and authenticity in Kant, Kierkegaard, and Levinas. Pickett's unpretentious and elegant style enable him to lay out complex ideas in an accessible way." -Carl S. Hughes, Texas Lutheran University, author of Kierkegaa…
The history of northern Renaissance art, from the late 14th to the early 16th century, drawing on a rich range of sources to show how northern European art dominated the visual culture of Europe in this formative period
"Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose a…
"Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose a…
This title argues for the term and concept of 'postmillennial reconstruction' to fill the gap left by the decline of postmodernism and deconstruction as useful cultural and literary categories. Wolfgang Funk shows how this notion emerges from the theoretical and philosophical de…