Word: jam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students resort to antics for attention. Every semester, a handful of students manipulate the classroom into an arena for the entertainment of others. Several Harvard student organizations have maximized their visibility this way. While a cappella groups often sing at the start of a lecture to plug an upcoming jam, more offbeat spectacles have taken place. In December, the Phoenix S.K. final club sent its new members to Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights: Five Performance Premieres" to show off their legs and moves while dancing to Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." In another unrelated incident, another final club...
...personally treated it as an opportunity to get ready for our jam coming up this month," said Rob C. Opdycke '99, music director for the group...
...Scott Fitzgerald lived in the jazz age, just as Dylan and Jimi Hendrix were among the rulers of the age of rock, it could be argued that we are living in the age of hip-hop. "Rock is old," says Russell Simmons, head of the hip-hop label Def Jam, which took in nearly $200 million in 1998. "It's old people's s____. The creative people who are great, who are talking about youth culture in a way that makes sense, happen to be rappers...
...albums last year, compared with 72 million for country. Rap sales increased a stunning 31% from 1997 to 1998, in contrast to 2% gains for country, 6% for rock and 9% for the music industry overall. Boasts rapper Jay-Z, whose current album, Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life (Def Jam), has sold more than 3 million copies: "Hip-hop is the rebellious voice of the youth. It's what people want to hear...
...greens, after all. As for alternative rockers, they have the same relationship toward success that one imagines Ally McBeal has toward food: even a small slice of the pie leaves waves of guilt. Rappers make money without remorse. "These guys are so real, they brag about money," says Def Jam's Simmons. "They don't regret getting a Coca-Cola deal. They brag about a Coca-Cola deal...