Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visages de Liege (1961), ending the first half, was played on Ampex and Sony tape decks, McIntosh amplifiers, and six large speaker enclosures along the walls. The first Visage, "L'air et l'eau," was dull, using everyday electronic sounds to no new effects. It sounded distressingly like the background music to either an aspirin commercial or a spaceranger episode. "Voix de la Ville" and "Forges," on the other hand, were fresh, and full of exciting ideas, unusual sounds creating a wide range of mental images: massive steam engines running wild, fiery boilers bursting at the seams; or perhaps...
...billboards go, it's a real stopper-a huge closeup photo of a pimply faced, wild-haired hippie, mounted on a ghastly yellow background and bearing the message, in red and black letters: BEAUTIFY AMERICA, GET A HAIRCUT. The poster has lately appeared on roadsides across the nation, generating no end of speculation about who or what is behind the campaign...
...collective rather than individual. Sorting like musical pack rats through a patchwork of influences, they piece together witty collages that throb with asymmetrical rhythms and fierce intensity, yet never neglect an unashamed capacity for lyricism. "We are playing jazz that represents our particular generation, time of life and background," says Burton. "The people who have been the major influences for the past five to ten years are now getting to be over 40. We're less traditional than they are, but we're not out to destroy traditions like some avant-garde players. We have very little reservation...
...best sequence is a short scene with Stokely Carmichael, whose cool is chilling as he smilingly maintains that mankind's only hope is for the colored races to smite the white devils like avenging angels. Later, a narrator weeps for Viet Nam-based U.S. soldiers, mostly of "Calvinistic background and Omaha upbringing," whose first sexual encounters are "almost certainly" homosexual in the fag bars of Saigon. (The U.S. has plenty of problems in Saigon, but the fag bar is not one of them...
Unwelcome in the cradle of the British Commonwealth, where Asians and Negroes are all labeled as "colored immigrants" by a largely distrustful white population, the immigrants have turned to their own kind, formed large colored communities across England's Midlands and in London slums. Against the background of white resentment, the colored communities are growing restive. Last week 1,000 Pakistanis demonstrated in London against what they called the government's failure to redress the grievances of the Pakistani community. Much of their bitterness is justified. Colored doctors and nurses are a mainstay of Britain's nationalized...