Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second visit was to the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill, the oldest-standing African-American church...
...concert, namely the fact that the pieces and instruments were discussed a bit. It was impossible to leave without having learned something. Hopefully the Society for Early Music, and other musical organizations, will continue to bring their art forms to the Fogg, where it can float among those African masks and Renaissance portraits for an evening...
Lydon said that Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and African-American writer, had recently stated in The New Yorker that President Clinton had become a black man due to humiliating attacks on his character. Garcia's reporting, which omitted any mention of Toni Morrison, gave the impression that Lydon himself had come up with the idea and that Clinton blackness's had only to do with the stereotype of promiscuous black men. All of this is incorrect...
Alas, Garcia's reporting gives the impression that Lydon, the only non-African American member of the panel, was sharply at odds with his fellow panelists. Because of its errors, this article defeats the purpose of what the panel was all about. CATHERINE WALSH Dec. 2, 1998 The author is a writer and assistant editor for the Publications Office of the Graduate School of Education...
...virtually all respects, the Aussies were not here to show off. Even their decision to open with contemporary South Australian composer Graeme Koehne's Elevator Music, complete with maracas, hypnotic blues lines and African drum rhythms, was not meant to be flamboyant as it was meant to be fun. It seemed that their intention was to enliven the audience...