Word: juking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Asked to explain, she says she is referring tothe kids who drive up and down Acushnet Avenue andfrequent the Juke Box, one of New Bedford's fewnightclubs...
...fact, at their recent Juke Jam concert, the Harvard-Radcliffe Opportunes reappeared after their normal set to sing--surprise--"Change in My Life," the emotional gospel tune which many say is their best song. No matter how good the song or the group, it is presumptuous to withhold your best song from the normal set in expectation of being asked for an encore...
...weekend's events include Ashong's musical tonight, followed by a "juke joint" dessert reception in Loker Commons...
...charmingly enough, a section for teachers and children on teaching about sound and rythm in the classroom, linked from the Museum of Science. Or you might look up Cresswell and McNicholas's sound-track from the Showtime movie Riot, or their composition on Quincy Jones's album Q's Juke Joint, or the upcoming public-television special...
...mostly incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. In Fishin', Easy emerges as an Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...