Word: drumming
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...prominence by a new generation and new technology. In Tijuana, Mexico, young DJs are crossing traditional norteno (a polka-like music) with not-at-all-traditional techno to create a fresh genre, Nortec. In Bogota, Colombia, the rock duo Aterciopelados is mixing old-time accordion-driven vallenato with clubland drum-'n'-bass beats. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the great chanteuse Marisa Monte is smoothly blending samba...
...recording usually turn to Pablo Herrera. Herrera, 33, who studied English and Russian at the University of Havana and wrote his dissertation on American hip-hop, is one of the island's foremost promoters and producers. Herrera was able to persuade the Ministry of Culture to provide a turntable, drum machine, sampler and keyboard for the studio in his aging Spanish-style home in Havana. Thus equipped, he has promoted, produced or managed a dozen or so hip-hop acts, including Cuba's founding fathers of rap, Amenaza, which later reformed as Orishas. Herrera also produced the U.S.-released...
...some of the most engaging musical talent on campus drew people from all different houses. The whimsical green of the Eliot House tower was illuminated from behind the courtyard. Below it, part of the courtyard was illuminated from the ground by desk lamps borrowed from dorm rooms. The drum set was perched on picnic tables and an amp sat happily in a shopping cart, as Geoff S. Harcourt ’04, the lead singer of the first band, Subject to Change, so kindly pointed...
...even an admitted fan of the Top 40 who often played “Stairway to Heaven” on his guitar—and founded the band under Malcolm McLaren’s direction with the explicit knowledge that the Pistols’ true purpose was to drum up publicity for the King’s Road clothing store McLaren co-owned with Vivienne Westwood. Rotten’s claim that “only the fake survive” was used to incite a reaction among his fans, but in truth his statement was autobiographical. Vicious was unable...
...with paper nets. Shirtless skateboarders do stunts on an open walkway. Women in shorts and bikini tops lick at jewel-colored snow cones. In the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel with a Coca-Cola logo and a two-story emporium called the American Depot march a cavalry of drum-banging young Japanese men. They're sweating through their traditional Okinawan outfits of purple bandannas and swinging orange coats...