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Princes among thieves: sampling the '80s - hip hop music
I don't recall that the vogue lasted for more than a few years, but one of the things many of us did in the 1980s was to put a music sample on our answering ......(Continue Reading) Talkin' about a revolution: hungry for politically charged music? Listen up to a new generation of protest songs
It was really two songs that got me started thinking about the power of peace music. First was the plaintive wail of Bob Dylan in his 1964 classic, "The Times They Are A-Changin'." The se...(Continue Reading)The music never stopped: recordings depend on music, not vice versa
When I was young, I thought the music I heard on the radio was coming from live bands performing in the studios as I listened. I imagined pop groups ......(Continue Reading)The Black teen explosion: powerful group shapes fashion, music, movies and love
AFRICAN-AMERICAN youths have always been shapers and changers of American popular culture. But an electronic revolution and the emergence of an "electrosex" ......(Continue Reading)Songs of Whitman: jazz pianist Fred Hersch crowns a lifetime of achievement with Leaves of Grass, an evening-long composition based on the poetry of protoqueer
"I've been dogged by my musical choices," says jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch. "Yes, I chose to play Billy Strayhorn and Cole Porter, who were ......(Continue Reading)
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