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...don’t usually think of editors as artists. Technicians, yes; craftsmen, sure; but artists? That glorious epithet is reserved for creators and visionaries—not for the underlings who touch up their work...
What's more, the festival was the brainchild of Cui Jian--rarely mentioned in the Western press without his Homeric epithet, Godfather of Chinese Rock--whom authorities view as a crypto-dissident. Many of Cui's previous shows had been canceled. But this time organizers enlisted local and provincial authorities, including Lijiang's powerful tourism administration, as sponsors...
...What's more, the festival is the brainchild of Cui Jian?never mentioned in the Western press without his Homeric epithet, "Godfather of Chinese Rock"?whom authorities view as a crypto-dissident. Cui has had his share of shows canceled by authorities. But this time organizers have enlisted local and provincial authorities, including Lijiang's powerful tourism administration, as sponsors. Rock musicians performing outside the realm of state-sanctioned culture have reached a tacit accommodation with party officialdom...
...Kennedy’s core purpose in producing ‘Nigger’ was to assist White Americans in feeling comfortable with using the epithet ‘nigger,’” Kilson wrote...
...controversy that garnered nationwide attention began when first-year law student Kiwi A. Camara used the racial epithet “nig” in a post on a website run by HLS students...