Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Engulfed by Bluegrass. With the encroachments of records, radio and TV, the oldtime music is inevitably giving way to "modern," or "bluegrass"-a slicker, more heterogeneous style influenced by big-city commercial pros. "We are being engulfed by bluegrass," lamented one of the judges at Union Grove last week. But if the fiddlers' convention can do nothing about the dilution of folk traditions, it can at least draw the line somewhere. Brass instruments and drums are forbidden, and Convention Organizer J. P. Van Hoy says: "Some people a few years ago tried to play rock 'n' roll...
...modern music...
...stimulate student interest, the Marists show movies touching on topics under discussion; one recent evening featured Hud, followed by a seminar on the film's treatment of interpersonal relations. They also discuss modern novels (among them: Camus' The Stranger) and analyze the lyrics of such recorded rock-age prophets as the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel. The brothers are available to help with personal problems, and youngsters frequently drop by for confidential talks. To maintain accord between the Marists and their teen-age clients, there is a minimum of discipline...
...Stud (formerly Arch Sci) 125, Design in the Visual Environment. Like Arnheim's it will be a lecture course taught, in this case, by two architects (Donald Freeman and Eduard Sekler) who will probably emphasize form, structure, and materials in modern buildings and city planning...
...notable exception is UCLA's 8-minute Now That The Buffalo's Gone, by Burton C. Gershfield, an intensely personal treatment of the American Indian seen in modern media, photographed in high contrast solarized color. With blood-red skies surrounding purple-and-green silhouetted Indians, Gershfield synthesizes two unique aspects of American a from two different centuries and creates a novel and moving film...