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...denigration of Carla's first-world background tugs on a string of middle-class guilt and self-loathing tied around Carla's soul. Yearning for the "authentic" Mexican experience, Carla eventually ends up in a flat she shares with her new Mexican boyfriend Oscar, who dreams of becoming a DJ in America, but settles for selling pot and T-shirts to tourists. Eventually his underworld connections lead to a strange, international incident that precipitates Carla's return home...
...some of the most enterprising attempts to intellectualize hip-hop have been made by its own practitioners, not by tenured professors. KRS-One, the prototypical hip-hop teacher, brought political ideals more complex than “Fight the Power” into rap discourse; poet/rapper Saul Williams and DJ Spooky offer their own (somewhat ponderous) philosophies of sampling and breakbeats. Most hip-hop scholars in the academy have focused more on hip-hop’s intersection with reconstituted discourses of race and gender, and less on the form itself. Witness the inclusion of Tupac in a Harvard course...
...that I spend my time listening to has substance, pretty much,” says Samuel M. Zornow ’08. “Certain elements of it could be considered ‘pop.’”Zornow, also known as “DJ Shiftee,” plays dozens of professional gigs on campus and around Boston throughout the year. His performances use what he calls “the entirety of musical history.”However, Zornow’s earlier flings with pop paved the way to his current broad...
...rhymes edge from laid back into boring at times, but his condescending tone turns “But you’s a scary dude / Believed by very few” from good to “Oh, shit!” And the beat is downright epic. DJ Toomp delivers the marching strings and gut-rumbling bass synth to produce the kind of track you’ve always wanted to hear play when you walk into rooms. Fitting that such a brazenly cinematic song should be used to sell a movie...
...beat—hubcaps, tin cans, glass bottles. Last year, Konono No.1—a tradi-modern Congolese group—brought the makeshift sounds to a world audience when they released their “Congotronics” album. It quickly became required listening for every DJ and music collector on the block. The resulting songs were built on the foundation of African polyrhythms, but have new sounds from the city streets: jagged guitar lines, ambient fuzz, and distorted vocals. This homemade Kinshasa sound stands at an acoustic crossroads between folk, noise, and electronica, and its records...