Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Folk music is all over the place these days. There's Beck with his hip-hop folk, Ani DiFranco with her punk-folk, and Jewel with her sexy, wet-lipped pop-folk. Relative to that lot, the veteran duo Indigo Girls and newcomer Laura Love sound almost like folk traditionalists...
Rock fans in their chair days can recall a distant dawn when pop music was about having a good time--fun fun fun for sweet little 16 at the hop. But that was before guys who knew three guitar chords were dubbed artists and, as such, had to suffer out loud for their muse. Consumers of pop have become so used to dirges about life's rottenness, sung by grungesters crushed under the weight of money, fame, drugs and women, that any happy music seems like ad jingles. Even female singers, traditionally dainty types, got the message. Doesn't Alanis...
Panel discussions will focus on topics like recent trends in rap music, the relationship between the artists, their communities and their music; and the myths and reality of hip-hop culture...
...themes of this conference is to bring together in discussion artists, executives, listeners and journalists involved in hip-hop and the issues surrounding the culture," Bloodworth said...
...recorded a karaoke-style version of Anita Baker's Caught Up in the Rapture in a mall one day, and after the tape was passed among family and friends, it found its way to Andre Harrell, then head of Uptown Records. Blige was signed, paired with hot young hip-hop producer Combs, and her career was launched...