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There were moments when the audience held its breath, laughed and sighed with delight??and rightfully so. “Next Generation,” the Boston Ballet’s showcase of young choreographers that ran this past weekend, was truly a marvel. Combining modern and classical elements fluidly, it broke the boundaries of contemporary ballet. Sissones and demi grands were deconstructed, built again, and made...
...list of “samplers” in rap history. From its roots in Jamaican reggae and dub, hip-hop has always relied on the creative reuse of prerecorded material. Starting from simple looped beats of disco and funk tracks (think “Rapper’s Delight?? and their shameless use of Chic’s “Good Times”), sampling quickly evolved into montage masterworks by artists like EPMD, the Beastie Boys, and De La Soul.But, not surprisingly in our über-litigious country, the golden age of sampling didn?...
...style, lyrics or even a whole genre. The rap world is full of MCs claiming to suffer from “jacked” or “bitten” rhymes.The Sugarhill Gang’s breakthrough hip-hop hit “Rapper’s Delight?? is a classic culprit; the song liberally incorporates lyrics from Grandmaster Caz’s—of old-school favorites the Cold Crush Brothers—rhyme book. Decades before Caz’s lament, Little Richard voiced a similar criticism of Elvis, claiming that the so-called...
...posturing of many “real hip-hop heads,” the first rap songs were not about the problems of ghetto life, but instead were composed of nonsensical rhyming about fun and love. When the Sugar Hill Gang released “Rapper’s Delight?? in 1979, hip-hop was music by ghetto people for ghetto people, and was about sustaining life, not replicating the misery of poverty.Like all oppositional subcultures, however, hip-hop was eventually faced with incorporation by the mainstream. Recognizing the potential profit, corporate America and hip-hop performers formed...
After two years with the Minutemen, Welch was cut, and he switched over to the Boston University Junior Terriers, a squad much closer to home. Half a season later—much to Welch’s delight??Lannon followed...