Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scott Cossu's latest Windham Hill production, Switchback, brings an interesting combination of Latin beat and classical instruments to a fusion style that many recent composers use all too often to create background music rather than an intense listening experience...
...Desert Lightning," gives a good show of the talents of both musicians. The piece is an upbeat mix of piano, acoustic guitar, bass, flute and percussion instruments. Its tones are high and non-jarring, and the piano and guitar, while usually mixing in or keeping the rhythm in the background, are strong...
...similar to "Desert Lightning" in its harmonies and upbeat manner; however, the solos, particularly the flute solo, are more original and effective. Flutist Dave Valentin follows the piano solo and repeats its initial phrases; when he begins to improvise he creates a jazz sound that is not just relaxing background noise--it makes one want to listen to the musical combinations...
Racial politics is a game where a candidate for office is supported because of his or her racial or ethnic background. Since 1980, Black voters have gone 9-to-1 for the Democratic ticket while the Democrats have failed to pull in over 40 percent of whites...
...Harvard is a place where we can all learn from each other. Moreover, the assembly of minority groups should not be seen as a threat or a desire to be separatist. In a community of such diversity, minorities sometimes need to make associations with people of the same minority background for cultural, social, political, or whatever reason and their right to make these associations should be respected and admired. Mecca J. Nelson...