Word: blackness
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...Shins for over a decade now. Danger Mouse, however, is known for branching out and mixing musical styles. His rise to fame came with 2004’s “The Grey Album,” which remixed Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” with the Beatles “The White Album”. Since then, Danger Mouse has never remained in one place, producing albums and creating beats with musicians like Gorillaz, Beck, and his own project with Cee-Lo Green, Gnarls Barkley. On “Broken Bells...
...scene as crooked Mr. May is the only instance of a rewarding use of video in the play. Finally, the video’s detached feel makes thematic sense when projecting May’s image—in negative—as he speaks. His black-and-white face effectively reflects both Smith’s doubled role and May’s unfeeling nature...
...sprawling, deliberately worn set takes full advantage of the Loeb Ex’s black box space. Staging and lighting are mostly unobtrusive, allowing the actors to carry the play. Sound design plays a larger role—piano interludes complement the household’s cultural conflicts, while a battered turntable that sticks frequently punctuates the play’s powerful final moments. Overall, the production is fairly sparse, which accentuates the dreary gloom of the Harrington family’s relationships and takes the edge off some of the potential melodrama...
...American black men in post 9/11 popular culture are being portrayed as “heroic terror warriors,” according to Boston College professor Cynthia Young, who discussed her research at a talk with students and professors in Robinson Hall yesterday afternoon...
...discussion—which centered around a draft of one of Young’s papers titled “Black Ops and Sleeper Cells: Race, the War on Terror and Popular Culture from Above and Below”—explored how rap music and television shows such as “The Unit” and “Sleeper Cells” manifest changing popular conceptions of blackness and how the media can influence such race issues...