ABSTRACT
All events of large significance take place within the setting of some culture, and indeed derive their significance from the culture in which they find themselves. Aesthetically, Beauty is a spiritually induced arousal of the senses that is a stretch of the collective imagination. Unmistakably, there is a distinct difference in what American popular culture has referred to as the “jungle music” of Duke Ellington and the Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk. The theater style depends on power and power invocation. In the final analysis, then, Art is the great leavening of the spirit that reveals the imaginary of human aspiration. While the aspirations may be universal, its aesthetics are unique to the specifics of culture that make cultural production intelligible.
