Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mapped by Nazi propaganda, Africa's entire vastitude will come under German control (see p. 23). Last week, by virtue of troops on hand, Germany had a stronger African military position than at any other time in history. And last week Germany again began to bang the colonial drum. In Berlin a Nazi spokesman announced the approaching creation of a German Colonial Ministry, adding: "Germany long and consistently has claimed a right to colonies...
...Emperor over a West Indian island and proceeds to squeeze the natives of all their money. The first act, which moves a trifle slowly, finds the place empty of all the natives with only the Emperor and his white friend, Smithers. As the act closes the throbbing of a drum is heard in the hills, and Emperor Brutus Jones realizes that the time has come for him to flee the island. The rest of the play is made up of various stages in his flight, and the terrifying visions that haunt him in the forest. From the proud, gaudily-robed...
Into this them O'Neill has woven all the suspense possible. His main implement is the drum which begins to throb at the end of the first act and continues throughout, beating faster and faster as the natives come closer to their prey. To the drum he adds the visions of the fleeing Emperor, and in the murky forest appear the ghost figures of the men that Brutus Jones has killed. At each of these Jones fires a shot out of the precious six that he has until at last he shoots the sixth--a silver bullet he had saved...
...battery of traps, perspiring, floppy-haired Gene Krupa beat out African war dances and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie bumps. Between beats Mr. Krupa, a scholarly thumper as well as one of the world's best drummers, explained which was which. The Museum had asked him to drum up its educational program. And he banged out a reply to Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who lately pronounced Manhattan museums "stuffy" and unattractive to the young...
Lecturer Krupa's workout underlined a well-known point: that U.S. jazz sterns from Africa, via the Southern Negro. Drummer Krupa played records of drum-work by the Royal Watusi, a tribe of seven-footers. He banged on the Museum's signal drums, war drums, dance drums. He showed how his own famed Blue Rhythm Fantasy (scored for 14 percussion instruments) is based on Bahutu chants and dances, in which the savage hand-clapping is pure eight...