Word: abstracted
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...Check the Rhime" A Tribe Called Quest My all-time favorite - breathtaking rhyming skills, tricky abstract poetics creating mental aerobics for the listener, and a profound musical commentary on the MC as bebop inheritor...
...lyrical gymnastics cutting up and reordering the world, while others, such as Public Enemy, used the format as a platform for social criticism and a revival of the nationalist politics of Malcolm X. De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest were among the leaders of an imaginative school of abstract poetics that stretched the envelope of the hip-hop form and sought to connect it with earlier musical traditions such as bebop, but elsewhere 2 Live Crew were appropriating the frenetic Miami drum-and-bass sound to weave lascivious sexual fantasies that got local authorities screaming to shut them down...
Every generation needs a soy bomb. It's just that this generation already had one, a couple of years ago at the Grammy Awards. Still, Rage Against the Machine bassist TIM COMMERFORD decided to make his own abstract political statement by climbing the podium scaffolding at the MTV Video Music Awards, bringing a rare bit of unscripted television to an otherwise split-timed evening. Commerford scaled the 15-ft. structure as Limp Bizkit accepted the Best Rock video award. Cameras quickly cut away, but the bassist kept a Wayans family-size phalanx of security at bay for 10 minutes before...
Most video choreography isn't pushing the frontiers of dance. Watch a day of MTV, and you won't see much that compares favorably with the abstract poetics of Merce Cunningham or the rich ethnic synthesis of Garth Fagan. Choreographer Susan Stroman, who won a Tony for her work on the musical Contact, says the dancing she has seen in teen-pop videos lacks the depth of stage work. "In theater, a dance piece has a beginning, middle and end, like someone telling a story with dialogue," says Stroman. "In music videos, it's about the energy and the sound...
...Gore a question today, and he sometimes responds as if he's dictating a treatise. He loves academic arcana and obscure scientific theories, some of them deep and others New Age-y. He is drawn to complexity--abstract systems, chaos theory, the computer-processing technique of distributed intelligence--and when he encounters someone who strikes him as an intellectual, Gore likes to put his brain on display and unleash his knowledge, drawing little diagrams to illustrate his points, even when the subject...