Riko, Imahashi
The akita ranga school and the cultural context in Edo Japan / Imahasi riko edited by:McCreery, Ruth S. - Japan International House of Japan Inc. 2016 - xv, 425p. Hardcover
agentive appropriation of existing models rather than slavish imitation or consumption.1Groemer has no time for this work, which he sees as merely lending “a cloak of intellectual and artistic respectability to even the most banal musical commodities by fi nding important sociocultural (rarely musical) meanings in standard formulae and trivial deviations, or by invoking the mantra of ‘constructions of identity’ . . . the ultimate justifi cation
for everything” (pp. 211–12, my emphasis). This is strong, even dismissive, language and the reader is left wondering why Groemer takes just the last ten pages to develop these lines of argument instead of the whole book. A fuller articulation would have likely broadened the book’s appeal and helped clarify why the language of social constructionism is appropriate to Groemer’s analysis of the “consumptive subject” but not to the analysis of popular music in the work of others.
9784924971417
Painting, Japanese--Edo period
Japan--Civilization
721.83 / RIK-T
The akita ranga school and the cultural context in Edo Japan / Imahasi riko edited by:McCreery, Ruth S. - Japan International House of Japan Inc. 2016 - xv, 425p. Hardcover
agentive appropriation of existing models rather than slavish imitation or consumption.1Groemer has no time for this work, which he sees as merely lending “a cloak of intellectual and artistic respectability to even the most banal musical commodities by fi nding important sociocultural (rarely musical) meanings in standard formulae and trivial deviations, or by invoking the mantra of ‘constructions of identity’ . . . the ultimate justifi cation
for everything” (pp. 211–12, my emphasis). This is strong, even dismissive, language and the reader is left wondering why Groemer takes just the last ten pages to develop these lines of argument instead of the whole book. A fuller articulation would have likely broadened the book’s appeal and helped clarify why the language of social constructionism is appropriate to Groemer’s analysis of the “consumptive subject” but not to the analysis of popular music in the work of others.
9784924971417
Painting, Japanese--Edo period
Japan--Civilization
721.83 / RIK-T