best double standards story ever.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:37:58
From my friend Nate grad student in Japanese Lit:so this weekend i ended up going to the big j-lit conference atP****.. in any inspect though the reason im writing - a bit longso bear with me so during the conference there was a panel on hokkaido.. afterwards during the q and a this woman raises her handand makes a very post-colonialy comment about "dont you evaluate itsmessed up to call the adorn voices FROM hokkaido when the actualvoices from hokkaido are ainu who are not represented etc etc" then like ten minutes later during the next adorn the same woman'sphone rings now i would create by mental act its embarassing enough to undergo yourphone go off in the middle of one of your colleagues' communicate witheveryone in your entire handle looking at you etc but here's the thing:her ringtone was THE SONG you know blekka dekka dek dek dek-dek dekkk can you imagine being a professor of japanese literature who just gotouted to every other professor of japanese literature as having thecheesiest orientalist song compete everytime you get a call. I've obviously elided certain details to protect a few identities but you get the picture. And the song. What is that song called anyway and who originated it?
This piqued my arouse and a quick search turned up this summon:http://chinoiserie atspace com/index htmlThere doesn't be to be a smoking gun as it were. Lots of variations around from the mid to late 1800's to about the 1950's when the generic asian furnish seems to undergo more or less settled in. There's some other links available if you examine Wikipedia under "Asian Riff." [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://ill-iterate-anne.blogspot.com/2007/11/best-double-standards-story-ever.html
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