Word: jiving
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...experimental psychdelic sounds. You can listen regularly for months and only hear a half-dozen songs you don't like. (Compare this to WBZ, where you must suffer through three dogs, five commercials and two contests to savor one good tune.) The music is supplemented by T's rambling jive-talk, interviews with underground figures (from George Reed, who is running for Caesar on the Christmas Party to Frank Zappa, leader of the Psyche-rock Mothers of Invention), and experiments with collages and montages of sound...
...Otis Rush, 32, another Mississippian, is the smoothest of the new city stylists. He eschews the leaping and gyrating that other bluesmen indulge in because "anybody can jive around like that." Instead, he takes the "more soulful" approach by standing stock-still and concentrating on his inventive, left-handed guitar playing. His voice is lighter and cleaner-textured than those of most blues singers, but when it swoops and curls around a blues line, it carries an electrifying current of feeling...
...novelists write mostly in the first person, and that person speaks comic-strip American: jive jabber, Al Capptions, sportsese. What he says is ironic, defensive, cool, often comical. In all of these novels, the tone of the talk matters more than the shape of the plot. The new pops derive from the traditional novel of sensibility, but their sensibility is fresh and American. Their anti-heroes are the self and abstract of the lonely crowd, the Jonah wandering lost in the modern Leviathan...
...Willie and the Hand Jive--Johnny Otis...
...name was Sylvie; his name was Earl." --the Jive Five's "My True Story...