Tuesday 5 January 2010

Cultural stereoypes/motifs

A very well known song, Dario G's Carnival De Paris, contains instruments that are representive of the countries that featured in the 1998 World Cup.

Some of them may be stereotypical of their countries, but overall the instruments helped paint a picture for the listeners of a country.

This is a useful tool in films also. For example, if a scene is set in a foreign country from where the film is set, if they chose to negate spoonfeeding the audience, they would use music as a narrative device to show that they have moved on to the next chapter of the story in X country.

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