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...part any adult frustrated by the seeming lack of dedication the young bring to their studies. It's the rare film, for black or white audiences, in which good people can seem heartless or insubordinate for the best reasons, and where classical music gets the upper hand over le jazz hot. At the end, the teacher learns a thing or two about the music his loving children love to play. "My heart still belongs to the Masters," he says, referring to Beethoven and Bach, not plantation slave lords, "but look what swing has done...
...wave of the current American taste for jam-bands. But there are certainly jammier bands out there, even if Matthews was hawking his guitar-sax-violin combo back in the days when such a set up might be all it took to get you sandwiched between world music and jazz in musical limbo. Nor do his discerning ear and talented band seem to warrant the encomiums accorded him—there are far more talented bands going entirely unnoticed and most radio-listeners still don’t know who Jeff Buckley...
...today at the Boston Center for the Arts. “Futures Begin” features the individual murals of sixteen student artists. They are all veterans of the larger summer program which, with the supervision of professional artists, produces colorful and sometimes stunning public art—the jazz-inspired panels on the decaying doorway of the “Blue Store” in Dudley Square and a sepia barbershop scene in Roslindale, among many others, often painted over grafittied or otherwise run-down walls...
...please...” Fern says. “If you want to see Charlie dance you have to have a specific CD called Eon,” referring to an acid jazz group...
Other voluntary American imports include baseball, art, jazz, Hollywood and missionaries. Cohen asserts that American efforts to impose cultural change in Asia have failed, but does cite Japan as a positive example of forced “Americanization.” Though he admts that some Japanese are saddened at the loss of native culture, he argues that “we must remember what the Japanese have gained as part of their Americanization: the right to think critically, to read whatever they want, to choose whatever mix of cultures they please. Obviously, they think the price is right...