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...everywhere. The 3 Mustaphas 3, a cutting-edge band from England, incorporates styles from the Balkans, Africa and Latin America -- sometimes in a single song. And Shang Shang Typhoon, a Japanese septet with two albums on the Epic/Sony Japan label, blends Okinawan and traditional Japanese music with salsa, reggae, funk and rock. "There is no pure, unadulterated music anymore," says Hart. "Nor should there be. If music doesn't change, it dies. And when the music dies, the community dies." By that measure, the world's future sounds pretty lively...
...extent of the gloom Americans feel as the current downturn enters its 18th month. The slump is the longest, if not the deepest, since the Great Depression. Traumatized by layoffs that have cost more than 1.2 million jobs during the slump, U.S. consumers have fallen into their deepest funk in years. "Never in my adult life have I heard more deep- seated feelings of concern," says Howard Allen, retired chairman of Southern California Edison. "Many, many business leaders share this lack of confidence and recognize that we are in real economic trouble." Says University of Michigan economist Paul McCracken: "This...
...year bookended by such extraordinary triumphs is a year whose close finds the nation in a blue funk. Doctor...
Thursday: Funk! With Chuck with Exhibit A and Mind Over Matter...
...fact, in a town where legends come around as regularly as lunchtime. This is a package of 16 solid sides, including From a Whisper to a Scream and What Do You Want the Girl to Do?, culled from his middle-period, major-label work. The very definition of funk; if you don't know Toussaint, your ears have never been baptized...