Video Phenomena

[Alexandre Enkerli]

Mike Wesch has other videos which have LingAnth significance, in my humble
opinion.
For instance, the personal democracy one has a portion on the cultural
history of "whatever":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6eMdMZezAQ

And the Manitoba one on media literacy could be used in a dicussion of...
literacy. (Possibly his most academic video.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s


On "auditory hallucinations" (I thought it was a common concept in English
too, though it might be more popular in French), they could probably serve
several purposes, in LingAnth courses. Typically, in Francophone
communities, we use them for entertainment value. But it's quite likely that
a latent function is to negotiate the status of different languages.
Especially when they have to do with the dominance of songs in English. In a
way, it could even have to do with claiming limited understanding of
English.

Here in Quebec, a French-speaking "morning zoo" show ("Y'é trop d'bonne
heure" on CKOI, a popular station with a named pronounced like "it's what?"
or "What is it?") used to have a segment called "Les hallucinations du
tigre" (as a play on "hallucinations auditives"). Part of the game
was  actually to build a story around the misheard quotes. I vaguely
remember one based on a cyclist hurting himself. One "hallucination" was
from a song in Maninka by Salif Keita in which it allegedly said "Mon bel
Acadien tes p'tites pommes" ("My nice Acadian man, your little apples" with
the allusion being to the man's testicles).
Some examples were much longer but the only one I remember very precisely is
"(I've been through every single) book I know" in Sting's /Be Still My
Beating Heart/ which was heard as "des beaux cadeaux" ("some nice gifts").

Cheers!

--
Alexandre
http://enkerli.com/


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 16:21, SLA Webmaster <slawebguru at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems like Bambi's message didn't make it to the list:
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 08:14, Bambi Schieffelin <bs4 at nyu.edu> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
> Have a look at Michael Wesch's piece about YouTube for the Library of
> Congress - also his "mwesch's channel" (on YouTube) wh has a lot of
> the source pieces he uses, including the Numa Numa sequences.
> BBS
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Alex Enkerli
> SLA Web Guru
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Alexandre Enkerli <enkerli at gmail.com>
> 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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> >> >       - Re: Music related to Linguistics &
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