Word: fusions
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Jazz has long served as a site of cultural integration, and monday’s Ethio-Jazz concert in Sanders Theater was no different, using jazz fusion as a lens to examine the changing nature of the Ethiopian American identity in a rapidly globalizing world. This performance by the Either/Orchestra, featuring the compositions of Mulatu Astatke, concluded two days of presentations and panel discussions on Cultural Creativity in the Ethiopian American Diaspora. The fusion of Ethiopian traditional music with the already diverse language of jazz provided a fitting conclusion to the weekend.The conference opened with a keynote conversation between...
...Couleurs” composes “Youth’s” center, transforming from a faintly sinister automatic groove to a wild, desperate, heavily percussive jungle of beats, synthesizers, and rhythm guitar. “Kim & Jessie,” a mid-tempo dance/rock fusion that struts on synth beats, dense keyboards, and distorted guitar riffs, should have opened the album. Instead, “You, Appearing,” a mildly interesting sound experiment constructed over an uninspired piano loop, acts as its overlong prefix, beginning the record without any of the audacity that makes...
...PROFESSOR It’s Monday afternoon and jazz fusion is blaring as students amble into a Science Center lecture hall to attend back to Psychology. 1. They settle towards the front of the the room. A poster from an old science fiction movie is projected on the left side of the lecture hall. On the right, the students see a schedule for the day’s lecture. Suddenly, Porky Pig interrupts the music: “That’s allllllll folks!” Gilbert takes the stage. “There are a lot of things...
...Wrigley Field (#30). I preach the educational value of liberal arts degrees (#47) and study abroad (#72) - and I have big plans to raise my children multilingual (#78). I love my gay friends and wish I had more (#88), and I have a thing for NPR (#44), Asian fusion food (#45), The Wire (#85) and Patagonia fleeces (#87). I appreciate microbreweries (#23) and Mos Def (#69). And I have two last names...
...tradition with transformation. Shrines are married seamlessly to the city landscape, the modern buildings are marked with ancient Japanese touches like glass panes that imitate noren (a traditional cloth), and midtown high-rises are laid out in patterns that replicate ancient rock garden principles. The food echoed this fusion. I traveled nearly 7,000 miles expecting to be blown away by exoticism but I was equally overwhelmed with nostalgia. My dichotomous experience of food in Tokyo, encapsulated and revealed by breakfast at Tsukiji, echoed exactly what made me fall in aesthetic love with the city: its conscientious fusion...