Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where soul is really at today is pop music. It emanates from the rumble of gospel chords and the plaintive cry of the blues. It is compounded of raw emotion, pulsing rhythm and spare, earthy lyrics?all suffused with the sensual, somewhat melancholy vibrations of the Negro idiom. Always the Negro idiom. LeRoi Jones, the militant Negro playwright, says: "Soul music is music coming out of the black spirit." For decades, it only reverberated around the edges of white pop music, injecting its native accent here and there; now it has penetrated to the core, and its tone and beat...
...impasse was born a new, freewheeling type of rock producer-usually as young and offbeat as the musicians themselves, steeped enough in the idiom to collaborate on songs, arrangements and electronic effects, and keenly attuned to "the street" (pop music's term for the fast-shifting mass market). Some of them went on record-company payrolls but most have remained independent, sometimes even wrapping up the complete record "package" before peddling it to the companies. Today roughly 70% of the releases that reach the bestseller charts are produced by the 100 or so independents now at work across...
...addition to the litany, a committee in charge of leavening some of the church's stodgier rituals commissioned a hymn in folk idiom, entitled When the Changes Come...
...hurriedly written into next fall's shows will have any individuality or credibility. Executive Producer Paul Monash, who next month will bring the first Negro family onto Peyton Place, says: "All the Negroes I've seen on TV are colorless-absolutely devoid of character, humor or idiom. They are prideless Negroes, castrated men and desexed females. These people are really gilded Rochesters...
...three ways Dylan has made the sound different. 1) The music; he's cut out Mike Bloomfield and the electric guitars, and put a drum and bass beat through the whole record that makes all the sound vaguely similar. 2) The language: he puts his songs in the country idiom (instead of the hip) by using a lot of twisted cliches, saying "whom" a lot instead of "who," and throwing awe-struck interjections to "the Lord" into the speech of his characters. 3) The stories in his songs: he's put plots with beginnings and endings and protagonists other than...