The use of stock music on Reality TV (Gordon Ramsay & Kitchen Nightmares, America's Got Talent, The Bachelor, Married at First Sight, etc.) has become more blunt over the last 20 years, constantly reusing the same tropes to present a simplistic, highly reified portrait of people & animals. Misrepresenting the world. In this video I break down the most common musical tropes used across various types of Reality TV comparing them to similar tropes used in nature documentaries to show how manipulative and unsophisticated they are.

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The 'Other' in Music

Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music [ Ссылка ]

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About Archetypes in Branding
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Helpful Reification Links:

Introductory:

Reification, Music and Problems of Modern Philosophy - Jonathan Lewis, 2014
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Adorno: A Critical Introduction - Simon Jarvis, 1998
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Advanced:

History & Class Consciousness, Georg Lukacs, 1923
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Dialectic of Enlightenment - Adorno, Theodor, 1944
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Philosophy of Modern Music - Adorno, Theodor, 1949
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