How can something be considered authentic if it cannot obtain the specific characteristics it had in the past?
One definition of authentic is not false or copied; genuine; real, with this definition anything that isn't originally created wouldn't fit in the category of authentic. That however, shouldn't mean that a performance cannot be recognized or has no value. The value in the performance lies in its success and how the listener at the time is effected by what they hear. Authenticity rests on a flimsy foundation based on assumptions that people haven't changed but throughout history not only people change taste does too, making the authenticity of something pretty hard to achieve realistically.
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