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...quest for change has often been a family affair: many top global-music performers, including Nigeria's Femi Kuti (son of Fela), Jamaica's Ziggy Marley (son of Bob) and Brazil's Max de Castro (son of Wilson Simonal), are the children of musical pioneers. Now, around the world, old traditions are being revived, remolded and returned to 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...
...answers are various and not simple. Nigeria's Femi Kuti, son of Afropop pioneer Fela Kuti, has, like his father, created a vibrant, pulsing, sweaty, sexy sound that's half African by way of Africa and half African by way of James Brown. His politically conscious music (Kuti heads the political party MASS--Movement Against Second Slavery) reflects that same complex consciousness of borders. Kuti knows, for instance, that African kleptocrats have often used nationalism for their own ends, and he gives neither Western cultural imperialism nor African corruption a pass. "We get the wrong people for government," he sings...
...Theft, on Sept. 11. There's the new school: the Strokes puts out its excellent debut, Is This It, on Sept. 25, and rock-hoppers Incubus deliver Morning View Oct. 23. And there's international rock: Colombian rockera Shakira unveils her first English-language disc Nov. 6, and Femi Kuti, son of Nigerian Afrobeat performer Fela, unleashes his potent Fight...
...early to say whether these pioneers will truly redefine travel options. Despite launch publicity, few people have ever seen a pink Bangkok "femi-bus." And Roy Ollson, head of Asia for Best Western, says the world's biggest hotel chain has yet to find significant demand for female-only facilities. "It's not like women execs need bodyguards," he says. "I really don't think we want to spend money on this." But replies Van der Hoeven: "It's not about money. Look at any hotel. Look at the size of the robe, the slippers: they're based on males...
...through the air, giving the bad guys foot-facials (Charlie's stunt maven, Yuen Cheung-yan, is the brother of Yuen Wo-ping, who choreographed Tiger). And to Barrymore, who produced it, Charlie's is a tribute to today's woman: able, independent and cute--not so much femi-nist as femi-nice. "We wanted the Angels to be strong, but not masculine," says scriptwriter John August. "They aren't afraid of their sexuality, but they don't use it as power. Drew and I agreed they should be recognizable 'girls.' And she doesn't mind the word girls...