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Traditional American music has come a long way from being played on the porch during a hot, summer day or at the Boxcar Socials of a small Appalachian town, but is still rarely seen in an academic setting. Because the multiple musical genres encompassed under the umbrella of “American Music” generally rely heavily on improvisation and informal settings, it is easy for them to be overlooked by artistic and academic institutions, shadowed by the cohesion and organization of symphony orchestras and classical ensembles. However, in the spring of 2007, two Harvard students, in an attempt...
...cool about drugs and murder?[....]Sometimes what’s cool is actually doing the not-cool thing.” In approaching these tropes honestly, Boice holds them to a light that transcends cliché.Grayson’s friends are obsessed with women, pot, music, Nintendo, and SAT-prep, and are constantly “teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown because their hemp necklace might be gay.” Boice deftly illustrates the psyche of the teenager of 1998: totally self-absorbed, yet cripplingly self-conscious.Boice’s unapologetic bluntness renders these characters...
...ticket-site scamming, it is fairly apparent that MJ super-fans are still numerous, and they somehow have enough liquid assets right now to both buy a ticket and travel to England.I almost understand where ticket buyers are coming from: I too love Michael Jackson’s music. It was some of the first music I ever got from my parents, and before he went completely nuts (or was abducted by extraterrestrials), I even liked watching his music videos on VH1’s “Pop-up Video.” I always went...
...They attempt to raise the level of rock in “Prom Queen” by employing a gratuitous dose of seizure-inducing camera effects. Bluish stage lights flash constantly, scene changes occur in sporadic bursts, and every drum fill thrashes the camera like an earthquake. The inspired music is matched by a truly inspired story: Lil’ Wayne used to have a high school crush who, in an unprecedented move, refused his advances. Well now Lil’ Wayne is rich and famous and she’s been left by her boyfriend to raise their child...
...tell the artist that the vocals on “Wavvves” are drowned out by charged chaos, or that a strong buzz of feedback stifles his melodies, would be to acknowledge his accomplishments rather than to deplore his defects. Coming from indie rocker Nathan Williams, whose music is variously categorized as crust pop, noise punk or even “shitgaze”—a descriptive variant of “shoegaze”—it is not surprising that his second album is every bit as defiantly clamorous as the first. While similarly...