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...ANYTHING can be termed the "next big thing" in 1983, it must be Black rap music, or funk, or whatever the cognoscente now choose to call it Clearly rap is the most original hybrid of Black music to emerge out of the inner city in many years, and probably the most interesting pop happening nowadays in the U.S. and England...
That process is already underway, prompted in part by the pathbreaking funk-electropop fusion of Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock," which combined chants with a purloined Kraftwerk riff and computer pyrotechnics by Arthur Baker...
...music and old, all sound on this concert tour compact and soul heavy, spirited but not demented. Bowie and band locomote through a decade's worth of favorites, from Ziggy Stardust through Young Americans, "Heroes ", and beyond, with an all-pro fervor that is deep into funk and goes very light indeed on the old druggy dolor. Bowie's voice is like pulverized gravel. It can give a strong foundation to a desperate love song like "Heroes," or lead straight and true to the tough core of Fame, with its nervy, insolent last line: "What's your name?" Onstage...
Rodriguez has recently begun incorporating funk as an influence in her music and plans to use future compositions as a means of conveying social messages. Even as a college musician, she says, you realize that there are "a lot of experiences out there that are outside of school a lot of poverty and a lot of dead end careers. "She is particularly concerned with improving face relations and advancing the cause of feminism Sexism. Rodriguez says, can distort even an artist's public image "It Prince's going to sing about all of these sex topics, people think...
Rockwell seems truly to empathize with the underdog and the outsider, especially in his discussions of Palmeri and the seminal Black jazz-funk alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Throughout the book, he stresses the importance of alienation in the creation and development of art and the plight of those who go unappreciated by their public. But he is severe on composers and artists who bend to the will of their audience and waters down his praise for popular musicians such as Keith Jarrett or Philip Glass...