Video Phenomena
Harriet J. Ottenheimer
mahafan at KSU.EDU
Wed Feb 10 21:43:26 UTC 2010
I love Michael Wesch's work (and the fact that he is a former student of
mine makes me extra proud!).
I must say I was unaware of auditory hallucinations in English. I would
love to be pointed to some good examples in English.
Harriet
Alexandre Enkerli wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:00 AM, LINGANTH automatic digest system <
>>>> LISTSERV at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> LINGANTH Digest - 6 Feb 2010 to 7 Feb 2010 (#2010-17)
>>>>>
>>>>> Table of contents:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Music related to Linguistics & Lx-Anthro? <#126abf2f452133bb_S1>
>>>>>
>> (2)
>>
>>>>> 1. Music related to Linguistics & Lx-Anthro?
>>>>> - Re: Music related to Linguistics &
>>>>>
>> Lx-Anthro?<?ui=2&ik=5906809d1b&view=att&th=126abf2f452133bb&attid=0.1&disp=emb&zw>(02/07)
>>
>>>>> *From:* Alexandre Enkerli <enkerli at GMAIL.COM>
>>>>> - Re: Music related to Linguistics &
>>>>>
>> Lx-Anthro?<?ui=2&ik=5906809d1b&view=att&th=126abf2f452133bb&attid=0.2&disp=emb&zw>(02/07)
>>
>>>>> *From:* Bambi Schieffelin <bs4 at NYU.EDU>
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