Drawn to Sound - Animation Film Music and Sonicity - Rebecca Coyle †
7 An Aesthetic of Ambiguity: Musical Representation of Indigenous Peoples in Disney’s Brother Bear
Drawn to Sound - Animation Film Music and Sonicity - Rebecca Coyle †
Janice Esther Tulk
Description
This chapter first provides a brief overview of the representation of indigenous peoples in film. It turns to the animated film Brother Bear and demonstrates that the scripted motifs have antecedents in the folklore of several indigenous cultures.