ANTHROP 2MA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kwaito, Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Capital

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Media: what is the difference cultures. Artistic practice affects how we engage w the world. Transform how we engage w our enviro. Changes how we feel and see ourselves. The body and the sense are media for engaging w art and politics. Ethnomusicology: the study of the music of diff cultures, esp non-w ones, usually focused on the investigation of one particular genre, like anthrop, it entails ethnographic fieldwork, however, it frequently includes co-participation in music practice. Aesthetic autonomy: the idea that art should be free from society, art can communicate aspects of exp too fine grained for discursive language. Art for arts sake a philosp that the true intrinsic value of art and the only true art is divorced from any didactic, moral, politic, or utilitarian function. French sociology, author of distinction a social critique of the judgement of taste (79) Aesthetic appreciation solidifies social inequality: wanted to prove aesthetic autonomy, linking aesthetic appreciation and class.