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A strong argument against considering a bird's song to be music (art) is that art is generally defined as something that is?
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Man-made
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One definiteion of culture is that it is a kind of _____ that is out of our awareness.
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Aesthetic attitude
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Jeans are an artifact of our culture. What couls an alien anthropologist learn about us by studying jeans as a fashion phenomenon? State one thing we discussed in the last class beyond the fact that many people see jeans as comfortable.
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Jeans are the "norm" of what many "stylish" people wear. This norm says that we too easily are able to conform to what the majority of people wear.
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Funes, in the first paragraph of his introduction, says that listening is?
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Always around. There is never complete silence.
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The branch of philosophy that concerns itself with theories of beauty and the arts is called?
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Aesthetics
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What was the point Funes' was trying to make with the example of the peaceful country scene?
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Showing how when even something is simple, we still find sounds around us. A place where we can go so that our mind is clear before we make any judgments.
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In order to practice sympathetic awareness one must?
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Not have any prejudices as to not reject a piece f music before fully listening to it.
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What can tradition be defined as?
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Culture, music, food, religion, or moral values.
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Are we ever in a place where there is complete silence?
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No, it can be anything from a singing bird to wind blowing among the trees.
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