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...actual performance, which combined two of Jackson’s biggest hits and one of Timberlake’s most recent, could have been groundbreaking. Barely a generation has passed since the white singer Petula Clarke insisted on touching the arm of black musician Harry Belafonte during a duet on her 1968 NBC special. Despite pressure to cut the segment in “deference” to (racist) Southern viewers, NBC exercised the good judgment to leave the duet...
...surprisingly big seller for TOKYOPOP is "Gravitation" by Maki Murakami. It falls into a splinter genre of shojo called shonen-ai, translated literally as "boy-love." Though targeted at girls, shonen-ai features the romantic relationship between two males, in this case between high-schooler and aspiring musician Shuichi and a slightly older romance novelist named Eiri Yuki. Though it features a passionate kiss, "Gravitation" and other shonen-ai never get sexually explicit. The appeal for girls seems to be in looking at two pretty boys entering into an untouchable romance. Though quite popular in Japan, very little shonen...
...focused on an alleged personal vendetta between Eminem and me, but doing so obscures the real issues. It is The Source's journalistic responsibility to bring Eminem's multiple racist rants to light and publish excerpts of the song tracks. Our hope is not necessarily to topple a talented musician; it is to make Eminem accountable for his words and engage him and his fans in a real dialogue about racism. The Source wants to reveal the racial bias that is leading hip-hop music down the same path as rock 'n' roll, which was created by African Americans...
...fill the empty hours, I entertained myself with the latest gadgets and my imagination. I was lucky because my wonderful father, a revered classical musician, was always bringing home the high-tech equipment of the day, such as a tape recorder and television set, long before most families owned them. And my beautiful, childlike mother had already instilled in me a belief in magic, feeding my love of fairy tales and storytelling. I was an avid reader of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm and comic books...
University of Massachusetts music and ethnomusicology student Lauren Ingram is finishing her thesis on local street and subway musicians. The project, which combines a photoethinography, a CD of subway performance and stories from individual performers, centers on the dynamics of musician-audience interaction...