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Cultural Appropriation and the Arts
"Thank goodness for James O. Young! Finally someone has cut through the cant associated with cultural appropriation, weighed the issues with care and a keen eye for irony, and clarified the ethical limits of intercultural borrowing. This concise, accessible book will be a bracing tonic for anyone interested in the global art market, cultural property, and dilemmas of social justice in a world of disappearing borders." "Young's offers a measured and sensitive analysis of the moral and aesthetic issues raised by cultural appropriation. He praises responsible cultural appropriation and distinguishes this from cultural appropriation that amount to theft and assault or that cause profound offense. An interesting contribution to a topic that has not received the attention from aestheticians that it deserves." "Here at last is a philosophical work that cuts through the precious nonsense and rhetoric written about the kinds of appropriation bound to occur when the arts of one people bump up against the arts of another. James O. Young is acutely sensitive to the political sentiments that cloud these issues, but completely clear and rigorous in his analysis. In its incisiveness and honesty, Cultural Appropriation and the Arts is a major contribution to cross-cultural aesthetics."
–Michael F. Brown, Williams College, author of Who Owns Native Culture?
–Stephen Davies, The University of Auckland
–Dennis Dutton, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
James O. Young (Author)
9781444332711, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 15 January 2010
192 pages
23 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.299 kg
“Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, by James O. Young, provides an analytical, comprehensive overview of ethical and aesthetic issues concerning cultural appropriation.” (Journal of Cult Economy, 25 March 2011)
Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise.
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
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
