Video Phenomena

[Harriet J. Ottenheimer]

I was thinking before of CDs and mp3s but videos open up another whole 
arena so if you have a classroom equipped with online access and a 
screen here are a few different suggestions.

French "Hallucinations Auditives" are a great example of "soramimi" 
where the mishearings are in French.  Note that part of the game here 
seems to be to find lewdest mishearings possible.

There are quite a few of these posted on YouTube but this is one of the 
better examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-y9Ga9VDtY
It's also posted on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=110158434709&ref=nf

I like this one for classes because the singers, song-titles, and lyrics 
are all presented at the same time that the song clip is playing.  Also 
because the author (Marie Varela) has used songs from several different 
languages.  American students will be most familiar, of course, with the 
American songs, and those who know a bit of French will have a slight 
advantage (or perhaps disadvantage: I find that my own knowledge of 
French interferes with my ability to hear the English words!!)

Finally, on a different note, Sid Caesar's "argument" set to Beethoven's 
9th is a wonderful play on non-verbal "communication" (and just plain 
funny).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhF-7suDsM

Harriet Ottenheimer

Alexandre Enkerli wrote:
> Actually, in the playlist under the video Jess sent, there's a mention of
> "Numa Numa Guy." If you don't know, it comes from yet another "viral video,"
> which students may not have seen and which could also be the basis for some
> discussion.
> In that video, Gary Brolsma recorded himself while reacting to "Dragonstea
> Din Tei," from Moldavian band O-Zone.
> Brolsma's video:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o
> O-Zone:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRx5PrAlUdY
>
> Now, those videos aren't self-explanatory in their connection to linguistic
> anthropology. But this might be where students can contribute more.
> If it were me, I'd probably include them in a section on language and
> globalization. In a way, what this "Internet phenomenon" makes clear is that
> music isn't a universal language. Of course, there are many ways to get this
> point across. But depending on who the students are, this one might be quite
> effective.
>
> And this one, in which Gary Brolsma appears, is all about intertextuality:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoFMRXlNJ6Y
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 05:29, Jess Bier <jessbier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Here is a different kind of example, a music video surtitled "What English
>> Sounds Like to Foreigners". Perhaps you've already seen it:
>>
>> http://music.todaysbigthing.com/2009/11/03
>>
>> From the website:
>>
>> "An Italian singer wrote this song with gibberish to sound like English. If
>> you've ever wondered what other people think Americans sound like, this is
>> it."
>>
>> Jess
>>
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