Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ship, with a gentle breeze and a sky full of stars. Don't be surprised to find them hits on the "easy listening" station. Their relative safety in conforming to mainstream pop ballad expectations contrasts with "When Love Comes to the Rescue" and "Lover's Holiday." These two songs blend synthesizers, acoustic piano and heavily syncopated rhythms into a silky tropical sound. Deep piano bass notes and Adams' voice soar together irresistably...
...Plus, the low-pitched crooning here will intensify your appreciation of her range in later cuts like Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind." The fact that these two songs are out-and-out `torch singing' shouldn't come as too much of a surprise considering the amazing blend of influences Adams mixes. Hers is a rich sound, drawing on the legacies of people from Billie Holiday to Anita Baker and Barbara Streisand...
...both sets of parents. Still, when Hobson first visited the Gawandes in Ohio, not every one of their friends was ready to celebrate. "One Indian family didn't want to come because they were concerned about their children being influenced," Hobson says. Their wedding in Virginia was a harmonious blend of two cultures: although Kathleen wore a white gown and her minister officiated, the ceremony included readings from both Hindu and Christian texts...
Cuban-born Estefan, with her dance-floor blend of R. and B. and Cuban polyrhythms, has established herself as the queen of the new Latin sound. Arriving in Miami from Havana when she was two years old, she grew up in a household immersed in traditional Cuban ballads. By the first grade, she was also listening to British-invasion bands. "It was natural to blend both elements," says Estefan. "When immigrants come to America they bring their culture, and that culture becomes part of a new country. It makes everyone stronger...
...would be easy, seeing all this, to say that the world is moving toward the Raza Cosmica (Cosmic Race), predicted by the Mexican thinker Jose Vasconcelos in the '20s -- a glorious blend of mongrels and mestizos. It may be more relevant to suppose that more and more of the world may come to resemble Hong Kong, a stateless special economic zone full of expats and exiles linked by the lingua franca of English and the global marketplace. Some urbanists already see the world as a grid of 30 or so highly advanced city- regions, or technopoles, all plugged into...