exoticism

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The playing is vivid — strings lush and articulate, winds restrained, brasses secure — with a precision and transparency that emphasize Puccini’s debt to the adventurous instrumental textures, harmonies and gauzy exoticism of Stravinsky, Debussy and Strauss.

From New York Times

Although Harris was regarded as comical by the Jamaican community, her appropriation of a Jamaican accent was part of the key to her success, because it gave her an air of “exoticism.”

From Los Angeles Times

The earliest pictures here, dating from the 19th century and taken of Indigenous North Americans by non-Native photographers, emphasize exoticism, controllable otherness.

From New York Times

The discourse is often celebratory, leverages on exoticism and promotes "pop nationalism": a new form of soft power marketed in the form of pop culture.

From Salon

Obviously it has neocolonial histories and it's fraught with fetishism, exoticism.

From Salon