Word: counterpoint
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...those where the Prince lets the NPG cut loose with some old school funk workouts. The album’s lead single, “Fury,” is vintage purple-funk: Prince’s wailing guitar takes center stage, a gospel organ provides counterpoint to the melody, and a flesh and blood drummer keeps sick time in the background.“Get On the Boat”, the album’s closer, does “Fury” one better in the funk department. Prince channels the spirit of James Brown and delivers...
...analysis with tools,” arguing that at its worst it reduces the study of popular culture to something that is “easy, it’s flashy, and it can sound cool because it involves comic books and movies.” In a striking counterpoint to Stevens’ assertion about the importance of context, Teskey thinks a focus on recent pop culture can take the world out of context.“You can’t understand modernity just by studying the things around you,” he says. However, Weijie Huang...
...makes up for in soul. One of the album’s funkier tracks is “Mine Again,” a collaboration between Carey and legendary neo-soul producer James Poysner. The track is structured around a plaintive Wurlitzer melody; a killer horn section provides harmonic counterpoint; high-hat snares keep a steady rhythm in the background, and Carey’s five-octave voice takes center stage. The lyrics are standard pop fare, but Carey tackles them with surprising conviction...
Composer of Egypt’s current national anthem, “Biladi” (My Homeland), Darweesh was as innovative as he was prodigious, and he is famous for introducing harmony and counterpoint to Arabic composition and including parts for Western symphonic instruments in his ensemble pieces. His career was tragically cut short by a cocaine overdose in 1923, but his productive years were enormously prolific: he left behind 30 musicals, 150 songs and eleven adwars (complex, multi-section, songs...
...knight with-out armor in a savage land," the theme song said. Paladin was a good guy who dressed in black, dispensing bullets, beatings and quotes from Shakespeare with equal facility. As incarnated by Richard Boone, whose dandyish mustache and amused baritone voice lent ironic counterpoint to a face that looked as if it had just lost six barroom brawls, Paladin was the hired gun as moral arbiter. He needed no supporting cast to cheer on or question his decisions; he already had the writers and directors to make this series the best in the West...