Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 150 people attended "The NextLevel" conference, which featured a keynote address by multi-platinum artist KRS-One and panel discussions on the music industry, the artistry behind rap music and the influence of hip-hop culture on the American public...
...think people have to give up on the idea offinding an artist who represents all of hip-hop,and start accepting performers for what they dowell," Leger said...
...ARTIST NOW KNOWN AS REPRINCE...
...although Monk is an artist of few words, it should come as no surprise that she declares "I'm not a noun, I'm a verb!" And indeed, no one who's seen Monk and her company in performance would disagree. She rejects the traditional titles of "singer," "dancer," "choreographer" and "composer" and lets her work suggest its own categorization as it (and she) leaps from dance to poetry to extended vocal technique, an emotionally charged form of singing expressed using only singular sounds, and no words...
...tradition rooted in the greater movement to reclaim poetry as a dialogue between artist and audience. In the mid '80s, poet Marc Smith spearheaded the evolution of slam poetry by encouraging friends to battle it out Sunday nights at Chicago's Green Mill. After the evening's feature and open mike cleared the stage, judges were selected from the audience and given scorecards, and "rival" poets went head to head, poem by poem, for the approval of the bar. What was great on paper wasn't always a crowd-pleaser. To win, a poem had to have more than literary...