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Like many Harvard seniors, I have no idea where I am going to be next year, or what I will do when I get there. What I do know is that I don't want to be here, for one very simple reason: Jam...
Instead I found Jam'n. Jam'n is the only powerful local station that is even tangentially devoted to R&B and hip hop. But Jam'n is listed as "Top 40", and it takes this classification literally. Each day, without fail, the station plays about 42 songs--Billboard's top 40 and two Bob Marley songs to add a little variety...
This makes the station almost unlistenable to anyone who is any more than a casual music fan. If you don't believe me, take it from Baltazar, the station's bad boy morning deejay. "I can't listen to Jam'n," he told The Boston Globe in a 1995 profile. "We play the same songs over and over...
...repetition might be tolerable, if the 40 songs were really the 40 you wanted to hear. But what Jam'n touts as its "new" music is almost always at least four months out of date. In a recent Globe article, industry expert Lionel Ridenour, senior vice president of black music for Arista Records, explained this lag as a consequence of the fact that Boston does not have a "major urban FM" to go along with Jam'n's "crossover format...
Then they jam-packed the stage with British folk singer/tradition bearer David Jones, actors Patrick English, Sarah deLima and Richard Snee, the 40-member Revels Chorus, a merry company of Music Hall "artistes," the Pudding Lane Waits, the Dingley Dell Dancers, a parlor orchestra, the Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble, The Pinewoods Morris Meri and the Rose Galliard Northwest Morris, the Pearly King and Queen, and a fake ferret. Do you know what that means? Again, the press release speaks through me. Basically there are a lot of people on stage, no one is particularly charming or memorable, they do ridiculous...