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The Western canon is the embodiment of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and art that are highly cherished across the Western world, such works having achieved the status of classics.
Recent discussions emphasise the need for greater cultural diversity within the canon that are more encompassing of wise and accomplished humans. The canons of music and visual arts have been broadened to encompass often overlooked periods, while cinema still grapples with a narrow perspective. These critiques have created more discussion, with some viewing recent efforts to be more diverse and inclusive as prioritising activism over aesthetic values, often associated with critical theory, as well as postmodernism. Another critique highlights a narrow interpretation within the West, the dominance of English-speaking British and American cultures, at least under contemporary circumstances, which foment demands for a more diverse canon across the western hemisphere, particularly from authors, artists, poets, musicians, mathematicians, and other creative beings whose primary language is something other than English .
There is no official list of works that a recognized panel of experts or scholars agreed upon that is "the Western Canon," nor has there ever been such. A corpus of great works is an idea that has been discussed for the past century.
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