{"id":2550,"date":"2012-03-24T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T20:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:32:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:32:58","slug":"credentialism-and-other-modern-traditions-its-a-post-authentic-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2012\/03\/credentialism-and-other-modern-traditions-its-a-post-authentic-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions: It&#039;s a Post-Authentic World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A note to those who are imprudent enough not to follow the Japanese side of <em>Frog in a Well<\/em>:\u00a0 Jonathan Dresner has a smart, witty, and informative piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/2012\/03\/credentialism-and-other-modern-traditions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions<\/a> which riffs on the proposal to make \u548c\u98df [<em>washoku<\/em>, Japanese cuisine] an &#8220;intangible cultural asset.&#8221;\u00a0 Jonathan is especially sharp about the idea that Japanese food is uniquely unique, which plays along with my comments on &#8220;authenticity&#8221; in<a title=\"Who\u2019s Afraid of Chop Suey? Or, The Politics of Authenticity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2012\/02\/whos-afraid-of-chop-suey-or-the-politics-of-authenticity\/\" target=\"_blank\"> my piece on Chop Suey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s <a title=\"keynote speech\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2012-03-15\/entertainment\/chi-bruce-springsteen-sxsw-keynote-springsteen-speech-at-south-by-southwest-20120315_1_bruce-springsteen-sxsw-musical-memoir\" target=\"_blank\">keynote speech<\/a> to the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin took on the critics who wanted to keep rock and roll pure. Springsteen said we live in a &#8220;post-authentic world&#8221; with new forms, genres, influences, and instruments he couldn&#8217;t have imagined when he started out. Whether an  artist is using a computer or a guitar, &#8220;there is no pure way of doing  it, there&#8217;s just doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all chop suey. We can still decide that something tastes awful, but we can&#8217;t dismiss it simply because it&#8217;s not &#8220;authentic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note to those who are imprudent enough not to follow the Japanese side of Frog in a Well:\u00a0 Jonathan Dresner has a smart, witty, and informative piece, Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions which riffs on the proposal to make \u548c\u98df [washoku, Japanese cuisine] an &#8220;intangible cultural asset.&#8221;\u00a0 Jonathan is especially sharp about the idea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,111,119,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-culture","category-english","category-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-F8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4552,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}