“Cultural appropriation” is a phrase that seems to be cropping up more and more over the past couple of years. Social media users and social justice bloggers have been calling attention to the phenomenon in pop culture; recent examples include backlash towards Harry Styles and Lana Del Rey for wearing traditional Native American headdresses in photos and music videos‚ or black actress Amanda Stenberg’s explanatory video “Don’t Cash Crop on my Cornrows.” This dialogue brings up an important question:
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Matsuri—this is where I learned types of teas‚ cook important cultural dishes like curry or sushi‚ or dance in odori. The greatest value of this festival‚ however‚ moves beyond entertainment and deals with controversial matters‚ most notably cultural appropriation‚ a concept I do my best to combat. Originally‚ I enjoyed the activity because it was enjoyable. As I grew older‚ however‚ the brunt of facing stereotypes and fetishization of my culture made Sakura Matsuri more invaluable to me. Every time men
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Appropriations Essay- Robinson Crusoe and Cast Away Question: “Texts are inevitably a reflection of their particular historical‚ social and cultural contexts.” Appropriation is the translation of elements of one text into another‚ in which the old elements are transformed to suit the responders of the new social context. Texts are inexorably a replication of their particular historical‚ social and cultural frameworks. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Robert Zemeckis’ film appropriation
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“Ten things I hate about you is a good appropriation of Shakespeare’s play ‘taming of the shrew’.” ‘Ten things I hate about you’ (ten things) is a movie‚ which was released in 1999. It is meant to be an appropriation of shakspeares play ‘taming of the shrew’. But my question is‚ has it done so successfully? Even though he directors of ’10 things’ have changed a significant amount of the play‚ the main story line has been preserved‚. there are obvious similarities between the two texts. For
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When‚ where‚ who‚ is John Henry‚ and why is his story important to culture appropriation? In this case of John Henry in Steel Drivin’ Man you had the author telling both versions. The black culture being the appropriate one and the white culture being the inappropriate one. The white culture would change facts about John Henry and it wasn’t fair at all. John Henry was culturally appropriated by the white culture. White culture changed the facts and it was unfair for black culture.. For example‚ you
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Discuss the appropriation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Romeo+Juliet’ by Baz Luhrmann Texts and ideas from texts are appropriated and transformed into other text forms and other compositions in a different context. An appropriation is a text that is appropriated or taken over by another composer and presented in a new way. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a well-known high culture text that is a tragedy about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families
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The Three Little Pigs Once upon a time‚ there was an old sow with three little pigs‚ and as she had not enough to keep them‚ she sent them out to seek their fortune. Along the way they met a farmer with a bundle of hay. The oldest pig asked‚ "Please sir‚ may we purchase your hay to build a house?" And he made an agreement with the little pigs... except the youngest pig‚ "No brother‚ we should not buy this hay. The land‚ from which this hay cut‚ was de-forested‚ destroying numerous natural habitats
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have a profound effect upon the art-world that we call appropriation. The brief but influential movements such as Dada and Avant- garde‚ whose central figure Marcel Duchamp‚ viewed technology as a key metaphor of modern society. The artist Duchamp was involved with the avant-garde movements during the modernist period‚ having experimented with cubist paintings and acted as one of the founders of the Dadaist movement. As an iconoclast‚ Duchamp soon abandoned even these artistic principles‚ with the
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TMU302H1 Harmonic & Structural Analysis of Marcel Bitsch‚ concertino pour basson et piano Marcel Bitsch composed his Concertino pour basson et piano in 1948 prior to accepting the position of teaching counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1956 to 1988. It is an exciting piece written using the chromatic scale containing two movements. The piece in its entirety is very animated and neotonal‚ often using non-functional chord progressions and
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"Othello" and "O" tell the story of a great man who suffers terrible destruction as a result of external evil. "Othello" is a tale that weaves an intricate pattern of lies and deceit‚ beginning with the main character‚ Othello‚ being questioned by Brabanzio‚ the father of his new wife Desdemona who Othello had just married in secret. Brabanzio is not happy with this as not only is Othello a middle-aged man while Desdemona a young women‚ but Othello is a Moor‚ (a black man) and the thought of a white
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