Ch.17 Art and Media

Question 1

art

Answer 1

all ideas, forms, techniques and strategies that humans employ to express themselves creatively and to communicate their creativity and inspiration to others

Question 2

fine art

Answer 2

creative expression and communication often associated with cultural elites

Question 3

popular art

Answer 3

creative expression and communication often associated with the general population

Question 4

aesthetic experience

Answer 4

perception through one’s senses

Question 5

universal gaze

Answer 5

an intrinsic way of perceiving art- thought by many in the Western art would to be found across cultures- that informs what people consider to be art or not art

Question 6

authenticity

Answer 6

the perception of an object’s antiquity, uniqueness and originality within a local culture

Question 7

ethnomusciology

Answer 7

the study of music in cultural context

Question 8

kinetic orality

Answer 8

a musical genre combining body movement and voice

Question 9

global mediascape

Answer 9

global cultural flows of media and visual images that enable linkages and communication across boundaries in ways unimaginable a century ago

Question 10

visual anthropology

Answer 10

a field of anthropology that explores the production, circulation and consumption of visual images, focusing on the power of visual representation to influence culture and cultural identity

Question 11

photographic gaze

Answer 11

the presumed neutral viewpoint of the camera that in fact projects the perspective of the person behind the camera onto human nature, the natural world and history

Question 12

social media

Answer 12

new forms of communication based on computer and internet based technologies that facilitate social engagement, work, and pleasure

Question 13

avatar

Answer 13

an object, real or virtual that graphically represents a participant in a game or other activity