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...slaveholders--which for one thing is how bad came to mean good in African-American slang. And though hip is often cool and evasive, it can also be angry and hot. In the late 1940s and the '50s, anger came back into hip through the improvisational bebop style of jazz developed by saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. In response to the domestication of jazz by the swing bands of the 1930s, Parker developed a defiantly anti-commercial style, one with solos so rapid-fire they were too fast to dance to--and almost too fast to listen...
...Americans, it is always hard for us to confront the remnants of former greatness, skewed and corrupted by a decided lack of originality and misguided attempts to be hip and cool. It’s what is vaguely depressing about Rod Stewart cutting an album of jazz standards; the plight of rock stars bereft of new material can’t help but make us sad. In this grand tradition, R.E.M’s new album, Around the Sun, is at some points so frankly ill-advised that one wonders if Michael Stipe had his ostrich feather boa tied...
...informality of the audience did nothing to deter from the enjoyment of the montage of dance styles: tap, bharathanatyam, hip hop, bhangra, jazz, kathak, Bollywood and ballet, alone and in collaboration. Each group seemed to have its own enclave of particularly enthusiastic supporters in the audience, with UPenn’s PENNaach group greeted with the same warmth as Harvard’s Asian American Dance Troupe (AADT...
...hold full responsibility for the night’s spectacular performance. But this year’s Raunak couldn’t have been such a success without Monica Soni, who not only took charge of organizing the show, but also choreographed and performed in her own number, a jazz-modern piece spotlighting the ballet techniques of Rebecca S. Miller...
...debate, held before a small crowd at the Ryles jazz club in Inman Square, was the third and last meeting between the candidates for state representative from the 26th Middlesex District, which includes parts of Cambridge and Somerville...