Hip Hop and the Arts Flashcards
What is the conceptual figure that Fujimura keeps circling around to in these chapters?
Mearcstapa
Mearcstapa refers to individuals who live on the edge of their group.
What role do artists fulfill according to Fujimura?
Border walker, border stalker
Artists are uncomfortable in homogenous groups and have unique and valuable contributions to make.
What is the hermeneutics of suspicion?
A method of interpretation shaped by masters like Karl Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.
Define hermeneutics.
A method or theory of interpretation.
What does arts engagement equate to?
Criticism.
What does criticism uncover according to the text?
The hidden motives of the artist or the audience.
How does psychoanalysis view art?
As a manifestation of the artist’s psyche and subconscious desire.
What does the Marxist critique say about art?
Art as a manifestation of the material conditions of the author.
What is deconstruction in relation to art?
Art as a manifestation of the pervasive will to power encoded in our language.
What is often implied by the hermeneutics of suspicion?
Art = ideology.
What is the assertion about art in the text?
Art is more than ideology.
What does it imply if art is ideological?
There is a problem with the art or your way of understanding it.
Fill in the blank: Art is _______.
Allusive.
What does allusive art invite us to consider?
What if? and if only.
What does relational art explore?
What is unknown.
What is a key approach to engaging in art?
Adopt a posture of charity.
What does learning to see the aesthetic involve?
Understanding how humans communicate meaning.
What thought experiment is posed in relation to critiques?
What if there were no critiques?
What does criticism do?
Calls what is good, bad and what is bad, good.
How can criticism shape our experience?
Shapes our taste/interests and erects barriers.
What is the hermeneutics of active apprehension?
Enactment of answerable understanding.
What does understanding consist of?
Analytical and critical.
What is answerability?
Interpretive response under pressure of enactment.
What does the text suggest about interaction with text?
Text responds to text, text interprets text.
