Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Major record labels are starting to take notice. Musicians like Landreth, Wayne Toups and Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural have been marketed beyond the "roots music" category, and Cajun-Zydeco festivals and clubs have sprung up on both coasts. The Cajun-Zydeco sound has influenced mainstream artists as well. Paul Simon's homage to Zydeco and its late "king,'' Clifton Chenier, That Was Your Mother, was one of the highlights of his multimillion-selling Graceland album. Country chanteuse Mary Chapin Carpenter won a Grammy in 1992 for Down at the Twist and Shout, her foot-stompin' tribute to Cajun music in general...
Sometimes you have to search outside mainstream Harvard theater to find good-hearted fun. This is especially true this year when disease and depression seemed to be the grand themes. Okay, granted, Elvis: A Rockumentary in Puppets is also about disease and depression, but at least it's funny...
...Fred Lebow wears its wit casually, and the director, Jon Turteltaub, is serenely confident of it, his actors and his audience. He lets scenes develop and characters--especially Bullock's alert and tender Lucy--emerge at their own unforced pace. How nice it is to come out of a mainstream American movie feeling that you've been treated as an adult. And how rare...
...into his first Broadway appearance (as the devil in Damn Yankees) will hardly go down in history as unstintingly cerebral. What's more, many of these serious dramas are (as usual) British imports, in whole or part. Even so, at a time when many playgoers have lost faith in mainstream theater's ability to satisfy serious tastes, the change in the wind is heartening. Pick a night. It's a good time to be sailing for Broadway...
...newsprint and delivery are now read on the World Wide Web by thousands more than anyone had ever conceived. Student-run university newspapers, like ours, are a perfect example: people can read about what is really happening on campus at the click of a button, instead of depending on mainstream-media reports and glossy alumni magazines. Welcome to the media revolution...