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Nov 4, 2014 · Focusing on Andrew Kania's recent definition of music, I argue that the way in which it has been developed leads to problems, and I show that a number of other definitions of interest to philosophers of art (and others) run into similar problems. Issue Section: Articles.
- Jonathan Mckeown-Green
- 2014
Zappa presents his music as entertainment, resisting any alignment to the notion of art and its historical and elitist connotations. Instead, music is defined by the public's response, validated by appreciation, and ultimately, that is the limit at which the value of music can be found.
Over the course of the following four chapters, I outline and develop a perspective on the debate in Anglo-American philosophy about the definition of art. I hope to demonstrate that this perspective is fundamental and insightful.
Oct 22, 2007 · Central to many philosophers’ thinking on these subjects has been music’s apparent ability to express emotions while remaining an abstract art in some sense. This entry focuses almost exclusively on contemporary philosophy of music (i.e., work since the mid-twentieth century) in an analytic vein.
According to the procedural account of art's definition, most hard cases of possible-art really are artworks because art status is conferred upon those works by artists and others in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Levinson, whose goal is to define music as an art, proposes that music is "sounds temporally organized by a person for the purpose of enriching or intensifying experience through active engagement (e.g., lis-tening, dancing, performing) with the sounds regarded primarily, or in significant measure, as sounds" (1990, 273). He is happy to exclude
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Aug 6, 2018 · Stephen Davies teaches in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Auckland. He is the author of Musical Meaning and Expression, also from Cornell, Musical Works and Performances, Themes in the Philosophy of Music, and The Philosophy of Art.
