Open AccessAn Ontological Justification for Contextual Authenticity
Author(s) -
Caterina Moruzzi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the british journal of aesthetics/british journal of aesthetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-2842
pISSN - 0007-0904
DOI - 10.1093/aesthj/ayz020
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , musical , epistemology , monism , natural (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , outcome (game theory) , philosophy , sociology , psychology , aesthetics , linguistics , computer science , art , mathematics , literature , history , archaeology , mathematical economics , programming language
In this paper I defend a contextualist interpretation of authenticity in musical performance: we judge a performance as authentic not in respect of a stable set of requirements but according to contextually determined factors. This solution is the natural outcome of an independently supported ontological account of musical works: Musical Stage Theory. The aim of the paper is to give new momentum to the debate concerning the notion of authenticity and to challenge a monistic interpretation of authenticity: there is not one authenticity but many.