Word: canonizations
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Since Harvard's Core Courses offer "approaches to knowledge" rather than comprehensive surveys, there has been little campus-wide debate about the canon here...
Should a class aim to cover the "big names"chronologically or should it use a more thematicapproach? And how do perspectives which aren'tpart of the standard canon of "deal white males"fit into a basic survey...
...Laura Dean opens the show rather demurely, with a lyrical dance by the corps to "Sometimes It Shoes in April." The first piece is very classical, not at all portending what is to come. In silver, softly flowing costumes the dancers move through posesand in and out of canon. Although visuallyattractive, the piece does not do justice to theemotional intensity of Prince's tender song offrustrated love, with such lines as, "All goodthings, they say, never last...
...find Gim sweating to the oldies either. No, Gim has more refined taste in music to practice by. Expect Beethoven's fifth or Pachelbel's Canon...
Although Zerner's course will draw heavily on art from the Western canon, he says it will do so self-consciously, asking why studies of art history often exclude popular and folk...