Where did the stereotype of ‘oriental’ music come from?
You hear it the background of films from a certain period whenever there is a shot of a Chinatown or someone from Japan.
It’s an embellishment to such hits as Kung-Fu Fighting, Turning Japanese and Japanese Boy and yet I know of no indigenous music types that sound like it.It’s just taken for granted that it’s a short hand for the East.
Are you just talking about incidental music written in the Pentatonic Scale?
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