Prepare Yourself Flashcards
Stone (1979)
Kpelle of Liberia, artistic events are “set off and made distinct from the natural world of everyday life by the participants”
How do arts and culture interact? - homologous (source)
Feld 1984
homologous
art form and culture have same shape
Feld (1984)
musical form of “lift-up-over-sounding” reflects Kaluli communication pattern of “interrupting” each other [look for coherence, not correlation]
How do arts and culture interact? - transformative (sources)
Beeman (1997), Roseman (1989), Schechner (2006), Bourdieu (1977), Bennetta (1985), Abu-Lughod (1986)
Beeman (1997)
intentional, with aim to be effective/transformative; artistic communication events help people understand world around them: conservative (confirm what they think) vs. transformative (change their frames)
Roseman (1989)
symbols continually being re-learned, recreated, performing an interpretive function, a framework within which to comment upon/question the accepted order of things
Schechner (2006)
make belief (create social realities they enact) vs. make believe (clear boundary b/w performance and reality)
Bourdieu (1977)
agency; individuals/groups act on social environment with intention
Bennetta (1985)
women in African Apostolic Church may not preach, but can interrupt a sermon with a critical song (“Men, stop beating your wives”)–artistic communication provides symbolic protection for critical content.
Abu-Lughod (1986)
couldn’t complain or express pain conventionally, or through actions, but could let out real feelings through poetry (and other women heard them and related to them as real)
How do arts and culture interact? - anti-example? sources
Lomax (1962); Lomax (1976); Lomax, Arensberg et al. (1968)
What is creativity? - God creates…
ex nihilo, we create ex creatio
What is creativity? - sources
Best (2003), Ricouer (1984), Edge (2010)
Best (2003)
God as Continuous Outpourer; made in His image, we are created for continual outpouring, too, but He is singularly infinite, while humans are “unique and multiplied finitude”