Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge Slavic Chorus--Eastern European folk music, Sanders Theater...
...deny any racial or elitist intent--the motto is meant to acknowledge and affirm the singular course of American black musical development. The group's radical conception of musical performance has as its obvious source the improvisation and spontaneous creation which are characteristic of jazz, blues, and Afro-American folk music. These are musical values that have no counterpart in the mainstream of Western culture. But classifications like "jazz" or even "music" seem to narrow to contain the Art Ensemble's vision of "Great Black Music." It's terribly difficult to describe what the Art Ensemble of Chicago actually does...
...city's neighborhoods on a different day. For instance, next Thursday evening at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Japanese, tap, jazz and improvisational dance forms will be performed alongside Renaissance, Scottish highland and Indian flute music. Friday in Central Square a Greek dance group will be followed by a Haitian folk singer; later on a Puerto Rican singing group and a reggae band will play...
...music of the Roche sisters is startling, lacerating and amusing, pretty enough to sing along with, sly enough to linger. It restores a personal, lyric dimension to folk music, cuts through the smugness and self-absorption that have characterized it for too long. The Roches share a kind of skeptical innocence that is delicate but far from fragile. Maggie and Terre Roche flirted with fame once before and have logged a fair portion of time in the psychic danger zone. "We went so far out there/ Everybody got scared," Terre Roche wrote in one song...
...until late 1976, when Suzzy left college and the women formed a trio, that the Roches began to appear again. They sang Christmas carols, played troubadours for small change at train stations, began to be noticed on the relay of folk-oriented clubs around New York...