Word: funke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current reasons for this lack of awareness is that Harvard doesn't offer enough opportunities to flaunt the amazing talent of rock, pop, hip-hop and funk musicians that keep the underground music scene on this campus alive and kicking. Too many concertos and a capellas create a dry and predictable stereotype undeserving of the Harvard music scene. It's time to break out of the traditional mold and invest time and money into these fruitful, burgeoning musical prospects called student bands...
...Ithink it was called. It was the booming 80s and itwas like the new club where all my friends hungout and stuff. And I remember my friend Ben was inthe audience and I wasn't in the band but therewas this all-Black band called `Friends' and theywere playing funk. And I can play funk on myharmonica so I said to them, `Hey, check it out!'"Kerr interrupts himself to offer the harmonicarift. "`All right,' he says, `you sound good.We'll call you up.' So I chugged a couple ofdrinks, I can't remember what I was drinking atthe time...
Best Supporting Actor: Derrick N. Ashong '97, for Amistad. Don't fake the funk...
...Family Stand is a '90's band that has been deeply influenced by the mixture of soul and funk music that occurred from 1968-1975. The members of the band try to make music that breaks boundaries and is unable to be pigeonholed. Lord, singer/songwriter as well as producer, claims that The Family Stand is trying to reach its listeners in as many ways as possible through its music, aiming to move both the body and the mind, a goal which is achieved in Connected. One of the group's main objectives is to break through musical limits, and although...
...recent new Coen Brothers' movie of course brings us to the question of the new national underground lingo necessary eventually to replace African-American dialects, in everything from gangsta to funk to run-of-the-mill infusions. Fargo gave us the possibility of Minnesotan, but the limited variation--a few maple-leaf reminscent phonetic twists and an assortment of pause formations--obviously means it won't pan out. '80s surfer lingo didn't last too long, nor can computerese. So, geeoun before the geeoun's through, and I think latinitata will res out. Nice...