What idea of the world translate or hide the stereotypes? How are they made? Whether printed on glossy paper or on soundtrack, do the beautiful shots remain familiarly banal?
Brought back from distant lands or captured in the street below one’s home, the clichés also tell a facet of the world as it is, but above all as we look at it and listen to it, without surprise. The pigeons, tourists and the small orchestra in Saint Mark’s Square in Venice, a tango in the Boca district in Buenos Aires, a musette ball in France, a carnival in Brazil…: how do these well-known and hackneyed sounds fit into the imagination? Through a small anthology, Monica Fantini questions the “sound clichés” of the world at the same time as the ideas received on the genre.
An episode made with sound recordings from the sound map of Listening to the world:
- La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Dance, Soleïma, Arabi,
- Meria, Cap Corse, France: Popular Ball, Vittiglio, Claude
- Pelourinho, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil: Batucada at Carnival, Vittiglio, Claude
- Venice, Italy: St. Mark’s Square, Monica Fantini
Both a radio program broadcast every Sunday in RFI’s news bulletin and as a podcast on this page and participatory platform, Listening to the World lets you hear the cultures, languages and imaginations of the world through the sounds of five continents. The participatory and scalable platform offers sound postcards and recordings. To date, 245 sound recordings are available for free access.
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