Authenticity in Music

Authenticity in Chinese Minority Popular Music: A Case Study of Shanren, a Multi-Ethnic Indie Band

This paper focuses on the ethnic minority indie music band, Shanren, which presents a representative example of such musicians and their association with authenticity and culture in modern China. Ethnic minority indie bands are interested in shaping their own identity in contrast to the officially promoted minority music scene found in mainstream media. Shanren, as an example, seeks to represen...

Authenticity in Art

Works of art possess what we may call nominal authenticity, defined simply as the correct identification of the origins, authorship, or provenance of an object, ensuring that an object of aesthetic experience is properly named. However, the concept of authenticity often connotes something else, having to do with an object’s character as a true expression of an individual’s or a society’s values...

Relaxed Authenticity

In-network data aggregation allows energy-efficient communication within a sensor network. However, such data aggregation introduces new security challenges. As sensor nodes are prone to node-compromise, a fraction of nodes might act maliciously and forge aggregated data. For arbitrary aggregation functions, the verification of authenticity of aggregated data, i.e., its correctness, integrity, ...

Authenticity in Work Place Settings

Rethinking Authenticity in Tourism Experience

This paper aims at a conceptual clarification of the meanings of authenticity in tourist experiences. Three approaches are discussed, objectivism, constructivism, and postmodernism, and the limits of {{object-related authenticity|| are also exposed. It is suggested that existential authenticity is an alternative source in tourism, regardless of whether the toured objects are authentic. This con...