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...During the Saturday production, the five-foot-two actress gamely engaged performing students’ requests to learn and demonstrate steps from their group dances. Hayek even offered to use her “Hollywood connections” to help one performing musical group, Sangeet, record their South Asian fusion melodies...
...ears; the band’s beats and riffs are dense and quick-paced, introducing dissonance into supple vocals and generally submerging traditional melodies in a wash of sound that would be at home in any scenester dance club. Other bands on this album reflect varying degrees of similar fusion. On Masanka Sankayi’s track, electronic effects add a sheen of crackle to the singer’s voice, but it is ultimately the beat of skin-against-wood that carries the song. Then there’s Sobanza Mimanisa, who root their song “Kiwembo?...
...only, a bass note, a tone note, and a slap. But with those three notes, you have tremendous possibilities of what to do with the rhythm.” Ogunnaike’s past credentials include playing bass in a blues group, strumming guitar for a “fusion Cuban band,” and drumming with The Harvard University Drummers (THUD). Now he is a member of the Pan-African Drum and Dance Ensemble, a group that he co-founded in the fall and which will be playing in Saturday’s Cultural Rhythms show...
...famous. “Security Screenings” builds its songs on looped samples, delicately intermeshed beats, and electronic flourishes, dipping in and out of new modes with each bar. The result carries both the heft of hiphop and the prettiness of indie electronic. The effect of this fusion can be disorienting, but in a way disorientation is precisely the point: in the opening track, “The Letter: P,” Herren sets up a snatch of movie dialogue, only to undermine and distort the voices beyond recognition. It is a fitting introduction to his world...
...people who give life to them. America is uniquely socially mobile, ethnically mixed and racially tolerant. America is, in Ben Wattenberg's phrase, the first universal nation, indeed the only universal nation. Every street corner in New York City is a rainbow of humanity. The resulting interaction and fusion of cultures produce not just great cuisine and music and art but also great science and technology. Intel was cofounded by a Hungarian, Google by a Russian, Yahoo! by a Taiwanese. We are the world's masters of assimilation. Where else do you see cultures and races so at home with...