Caught an interesting Radio 4 programme today about ‘Chinese sounding’ musical themes in western music and how they developed to become a stereotype mainstay. Despite a weird, almost defensive intro, once this gets going, Anna Chen dives musicologically fairly deep into the compositional idea of how a five note melodic riff can summon up an entire cultural difference:
Chopsticks At Dawn (iPlayer link)
Chris T-T's Songnostic 
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