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托福听力考前必背的十大经典段子 托福听力段子1. 文科段子：艺术类音乐 It may seem strange that we’re discussing music from a Broadway production in this class, The Lion King especially, since it’s based on a popular Hollywood movie. I mean music preformed for Broadway theater in the heart of New York city surely would seem to be in the western tradition of popular music and not have much incommonwith themusicwehave beenstudyingin thiscourse,suchasgamelanmusic of Indonesia, or Zulu chants of South Africa, music that developed outside the westerntraditionofEuropeandAmerica.Butinfact,musicianshavealong-standing tradition of borrowing front one another’s cultures. And this production’s directorintentionallyincludedboth western and non-western music.That way, some oftherhythms,instrument,andharmoniestypicalofnon-westernmusiccontrastwith andcomplementpopularmusicmorefamiliartoaudiencesinNorthAmericaandEurope, music like rock, jazz or Broadway style show tunes. So I want to spend the rest of this class and most of the next one on the music from the show The Lion King as awayofsummarizingsomeofthetechnicaldistinctionsbetweentypicalwesternmusic and the non-western music that we’ve been studying. Now the African influence on the music is clear. The story takes place in Africa. So the director got a South Africancomposerto writesongswith a distinctly Africansound. Andthesongseven include words from African languages. But we’ll get back to the African influence later. First let’s turn tothe music thatwas written for theshadow puppet scenes in The Lion King, music based on the Indonesian music used in the shadow puppet theater of that region 托福听力段子2. 文科段子：文学名著 Continuing our survey of the 19th century, let’s take a look now at Harriet BeecherStowe.NowStoweisbestknownforhernovelUncleTom’s Cabin,abook that detailstheharshnessofplantationlifeinthesouth.Thebookwasextremelypopular in the United States as well as in other countries. Ironically though, for all the