Evaluating culture: World music and fusion food

Ruth Katz*, Elihu Katz

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Abstract

The problem of how to adapt criteria of evaluation to stylistic change will always be with us. Our current era of multiculturalism, postmodernism and globalism, however, confounds the problem almost beyond recognition. Multiculturalism, an heir of cultural relativism, asks us to withhold our evaluation, insisting that all cultures and subcultures deserve to be analyzed only from within themselves, postmodernism has virtually embraced dissonances and incoherence, while globalism promotes a mix-and-match of elements from a medley of cultures. Is there any basis for universal criteria of evaluation? How do/can critics cope? Examples are drawn from ‘world music’, foreign films, and changing fashions in food.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)155-165
Number of pages11
JournalInternational Journal of Cultural Studies
Volume18
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Mar 2015

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Keywords

  • cultural relativism
  • foreign film
  • fusion food
  • globalism
  • multiculturalism
  • post-modernism
  • world music

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