With Evan Malone.
It has been over two decades since Miranda Fricker labeled epistemic injustice, in which an agent is wronged in their capacity as a knower. The philosophical literature has proliferated with variants and related concepts. By considering cases in popular music, we argue that it is worth distinguishing a parallel phenomenon of art-interpretive injustice, in which an agent is wronged in their creative capacity as a possible artist. In section 1, we consider the prosecutorial use of rap lyrics in court as a central case of this injustice. In section 2, we distinguish art-interpretive injustice from other categories already discussed in recent literature. In section 3, we discuss the relationship between genre discourse and identity prejudice. The case for recognizing the category of art-interpretive injustice is that it allows one to recognize a class of harms as being importantly related in ways that one would otherwise overlook.
@ARTICLE{Malone+Magnus2023,
AUTHOR = {Evan Malone and P.D. Magnus},
TITLE = {Popular music and art-interpretive injustice},
JOURNAL = {Inquiry},
YEAR = {2023},
DOI = {10.1080/0020174X.2023.2213740},
NOTE = {On-line first}
}
The first on-line draft of this paper was posted 5may2022.