Word: esperanto
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...describe it. Magazines may not be able to resist the impulse to categorize, but Byron has carpentered an extraordinary career precisely by obliterating the very idea of category. Though he made his bones as a jazz clarinetist, over the past decade he has developed a sort of musical Esperanto--impassioned, expansive, inclusive--distilled from the babel of styles, genres and species, both historical and contemporary, that make up our perception of music itself...
...describe it. Magazines may not be able to resist the impulse to categorize, but Byron has carpentered an extraordinary career precisely by obliterating the very idea of category. Though he made his bones as a jazz clarinetist, over the past decade he has developed a sort of musical Esperanto - impassioned, expansive, inclusive - distilled from the babel of styles, genres and species, both historical and contemporary, that make up our perception of music itself...
...even close. You starred in the only movie ever made in Esperanto. Can you say bad career move in Esperanto...
...have dulled the shock. Bloom wrote that "rock music has one appeal only, a barbaric appeal, to sexual desire--not love, not eros, but sexual desire undeveloped and untutored." Because sexual desire is universal, pop music "knows neither class nor nation." Consequently, pop music is a sort of teenage Esperanto: Every pubescent youth, regardless of nationality, should be attracted to the "masturbatorial fantasy" it promises...
...whole world has decided to throw away their own culture and use this as the culture that reflects them. Music by African-Americans has become their voice, their Esperanto, so to speak," Jones told Billboard. "I've traveled around this world so many times, and it still shocks me. And Americans, white and black, seem to be the last to know about...