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|date_of_action=July 1993 | |date_of_action=July 1993 | ||
|description_of_content='Arabian Nights,' the opening theme of the Disney film ''Aladdin,'' originally featured lyrics describing the fictional Arab city in which the film takes place as "a faraway place/...where they cut off your ear/if they don't like your face/ it's barbaric, but hey, it's home!" | |description_of_content='Arabian Nights,' the opening theme of the Disney film ''Aladdin,'' originally featured lyrics describing the fictional Arab city in which the film takes place as "a faraway place/...where they cut off your ear/if they don't like your face/ it's barbaric, but hey, it's home!" | ||
|description_of_incident=Various Arab groups throughout the United States, including the aforementioned American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, criticized composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman as racist. | |description_of_incident=Various Arab groups throughout the United States, including the aforementioned American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, criticized composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman as racist. | ||
|description_of_result=After it's release and receiving several Oscars for musical score, Disney agreed to change the two lines. | |description_of_result=After it's release and receiving several Oscars for musical score, Disney agreed to change the two lines. | ||
|image=Arabian Nights.png | |image=Arabian Nights.png | ||
|source=The LA Times | |source=The LA Times | ||
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Revision as of 16:10, 17 March 2015
Artist: Disney
Year: 1992
Date of Action: July 1993
Region: North America
Subject: Racial/Ethnic
Medium: Film/Video "Film/Video" is not in the list (Commercial Advertising, Dance, Design, Installation, Journalism, Literature, Mixed Media, Music, Online, Painting, ...) of allowed values for the "Has medium" property., Music
Confronting Bodies: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Description of Artwork: 'Arabian Nights,' the opening theme of the Disney film Aladdin, originally featured lyrics describing the fictional Arab city in which the film takes place as "a faraway place/...where they cut off your ear/if they don't like your face/ it's barbaric, but hey, it's home!"
The Incident: Various Arab groups throughout the United States, including the aforementioned American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, criticized composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman as racist.
Results of Incident: After it's release and receiving several Oscars for musical score, Disney agreed to change the two lines.
Source:
• The LA Times
