Word: artes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints, the newest work from Chicana poet Pat Mora, is an attempt to create a literature to accompany the particular religious traditions of New Mexico. Overflowing with luscious color photographs of religious folk art (everything from pine wood statuettes of Jesus to napkins embroidered with the images of saints), Mora's book consciously tries to capture the combination of humility and religious pride that makes folk art so captivating. She attempts to give a voice to the shaky hands that manifested their faith through carving and sewing and painting...
...though, Mora manages to find the right balance between religion and reality, between the glory of the next life and the hardships of this one. When she does find this balance, Mora's words achieve a beauty that matches and often even surpasses that seen in the religious art on which she bases every poem. In "The Guardian Angels" she writes "In these hills,/the houses of glowing adobe/like rounded loaves,/like sliding but also rising,/the clear gold of wild grasses,/of swirling pollen,/of frog eyes humming." It is in passages like this that the intensity...
...concert, I felt the sincere camaraderie these musicians hold with their audiences, and folks in general. Perhaps it's because their Warner Bros. label has not yet been signed, but these guys are always willing to talk to their fans--about Crispix, mothers, home or anything. Devoted to their art and to their audiences, the Pat McGee Band is in the business for one reason: it's their love...
...music may be undergoing just such a transformation. In truth, hip hop has certainly had constitutive elements: emceeing, deejaying, breakdancing and grafitti art. Yet as a movement, hip hop has traversed more than 20 years since a particular voiceless community became local cultural creators. At the end of the '90s the industry of hip hop is a multi-billion dollar venture, one that reaches countless individuals in communites all over the place through a diversity of media. The stereotype of an East/West coast dichotomy is not only misplaced, it is further subverted by the fact that there...
Like modernism in art, the definitional question may depend on who you ask. If saturation of a market leads artists to abandon the genre, comercial hip hop may be at odds with itself. When punk rock broke big with fluffy nuggets that received popular recognition, some mourned the loss of the political punk. Others proclaimed a new genre to exploit, an upbeat gleeful energy. But whether or not the movement had died rested on the definition of the movement. The NextLevel conference highlighted this question able future of hip hop culture.William...