Answering these questions enables you to relate material from the text to your own personal experiences.
In your opinion, which artworks discussed in this chapter might become part of “the canon”? Which might your children’s children be studying in their humanities courses forty years from today? Why?
Find current examples of social conscience art, literature, and music.
What do you think music will be like fifty years from now? Will there still be a distinction between “classical” or “serious concert” and other music?
Speculate on how current forms of computer entertainment (video games, the Internet, and the like) might affect the future of the arts.
Thinking about all 6 volumes of The Humanistic Tradition, which period you have studied do you find most interesting? Significant? Why?
