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...Music has gone too far in other directions to simply accept a traditional form as complete. The results of polarization will undoubtedly be a synthesis of the essential elements of the original and the technology of the later. All of which brings us around to The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark...
Even the name Dillard is enough to provoke a shift in the mind frame to "fiddle and banjo"--the guts of bluegrass. This and the acoustic guitar also make up the insides of Expedition. But the trimmings here, electric harpsichord, dobro, drums and harmonica, put the whole album in a different cast. Willie Dixon called the music of the Chicago Blues All-Stars "Modernated blues," and the term "modernated" fits this record well, It jumps from Lester Flatt's "Git It On, Brother" to the almost-rock of "Out On The Side," maintaining a uniformity of tone which reflects...
...Vann is a Black student in the Harvard Summer School. He attends Dillard University, New Orleans...
...Close It Down." Students at Negro colleges are bitterly resentful of their own lack of campus freedom. Dillard students recently boycotted Sunday vesper services simply because they were compulsory. At Washington's Howard University, even though retiring President James M. Nabrit Jr., 67, praised "the spirit of revolt" at a convocation, more than 100 students walked out to protest his dismissal of 23 faculty and student activists this summer. The militant students cheered Sociology Professor Nathan Hare's declaration that "you got to close this place down...
...undergraduate level, the authors rate only a handful of Negro schools as exceptions to the role of inferiority. They put Fisk, Morehouse, Spelman, Hampton, Howard, Tuskegee, Dillard, Texas Southern and Morgan State "near the middle of the national academic procession." A few of these schools, they point out, are good enough to attract white students and eventually they may lose their identity as basically Negro schools...