Homage (arts): Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Art demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something}}

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'''Homage''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ɒ|m|ɪ|dʒ}} or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɒ|m|ɪ|dʒ}}) is a show or demonstration of [[respect]] or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/homage|title=homage|website=dictionary.cambridge.org|date=19 December 2020|access-date=19 December 2020}}</ref> The term is often used in [[the arts]], where one author or artist shows respect to another by allusion or imitation; this is often spelled like and pronounced similar to the original French '''''hommage''''' ({{IPAc-en|əʊ|ˈ|m|ɑː|ʒ}}).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/magazine/07FOB-onlanguage-t.html|title=Homage|first=Ben|last=Zimmer|newspaper=The New York Times|date=5November 2010|access-date=23 October 2017}}</ref>

It was originally a [[Homage (feudal)|declaration of fealty]] in the [[feudal system]] – swearing that one was the man (French: ''homme''), or subordinate, of the feudal lord.<ref>{{citation|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qtgotOF0MKQC&pg=PA686|title=Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages |volume=2|chapter=Homage|isbn=9781579582821 |last1=Vauchez |first1=Andre |year=2000 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers }}</ref> The concept then became used figuratively for an acknowledgement of quality or superiority. For example, a man might give homage to a lady, so honouring her beauty and other graces. In German scholarship, followers of a great scholar developed the custom of honouring their mentor by producing papers for a ''[[festschrift]]'' dedicated to him.<ref>{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ESFS7XXhujAC&pg=PA75 |title=An author's guide to scholarly publishing|first=Robin M.|last=Derricourt|year=1996|publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=0691037094}}</ref>

In music, homage can take the form of a composition (''[[Homage to Paderewski]]''), a [[tribute album]] (''[[Homage to Charles Parker]]'') or a [[sampling (music)|sample]].<ref>{{citation |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0tz5YpijuksC&pg=PA616 |title=Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World |first=John |last=Shepherd |chapter=Rock Homage|date=30 January 2003 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=9780826463210 }}</ref> Digital techniques used to generate many forms of media make it easy to borrow from other works, and this [[Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies)#Remediation|remediation]] may be used in homage to them.<ref>{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWNnBndF9uEC&pg=PA497|title=Routledge encyclopedia of narrative theory|first=Richard|last=Grusin|date=October 2007|publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9780203932896}}</ref>

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