Word: bohemianism
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Music has always been an industry, but these days, that’s all it is. From the manufactured rage of groups like Korn and Limp Bizkit, to the greasy puppy love of boy bands, the shameless narcissism of divas like Mariah Carey and the pseudo-bohemian Urban Outfitters rock of the Hives and the Strokes, the product is the same: a few catchy tunes and a sterile, hollow image...
...Calypso on St. Bart's in the French West Indies, migrated north to New York's Nolita neighborhood in 1994, her bright and breezy peasant blouses ushered in a casual new uniform for skinny models, stylists, socialites and starlets. Paired with low-slung jeans and crocheted hip belts, the bohemian look seemed to symbolize liberation from the tyranny of all Gucci or Prada all the time. Soon designers like Tom Ford caught the bohemian bug, and a striking facsimile of the Calypso peasant blouse turned up on Vogue's September 2001 cover with a label that read Yves Saint Laurent...
Fleurs de Sang, with actor/writer/director Myriam Mézières in person. The film features Mézières as a bohemian cabaret performer attempting to elevate herself and her daughter from the dregs of society. French with English subtitles. Friday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. Tickets $7, $5 students and seniors. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy...
...Joey choreographs a modern ballet based on the true story of expatriate German painter Walter Spies, who arrived in Bali in 1927. Spies single-handedly established Ubud as a bohemian destination, but he was later jailed for buggery by the then colonial Dutch authorities. Joey casts himself as Spies and finds a teenage Balinese dancer to play the painter's 16-year-old boyfriend. A rave pre-performance review raises expectations within the New York art world. But the show bombs when it moves to the big city, and Joey's life unravels. Bali has unleashed his naked ambition...
...helping to push independent hip hop firmly into the public consciousness. The renaissance at the fringes has been winning over critics and fans alike, ranging from the lo-fi sampler virtuosity of Madlib and MF Doom and seething electronic grime of El-P (the anti-Timbaland) to the obtuse bohemian leanings of the Anticon clique. Though he’s flexed his lyrical muscles with nearly all of them, Slug brandishes his own critic-approved designations: “emo rap” and its unfortunately named cousin “smart...