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...marketing tool (widely dubbed “promos” before the advent of MTV), but serve as vehicles to showcase the existing work of other artists. Even the video of a talented filmmaker raises questions of how much artistic control belonged to the director behind the camera, the musician in front of it and the record company bankrolling the effort. When the production ultimately boils down to carving out an image for the involved performer, there seems to be little room for individual artistic expression...
Once a year, musician and performer Leon Gruenbaum ’85 breaks his strict vegan diet by eating a slice of pizza while surrounded by onlookers. Afterwards, he lowers a plastic mannequin leg from the roof of his New York apartment building in a ritual called “The Lowering...
...Which musician do you admire most...
...then unleashes a spellbinding mix of urgent chants, mournful cadenzas and more quiet testimony. She often sings as the outsider, a role she has played for most of her life. A diplomat's daughter, Traoré spent chunks of her childhood in Algeria, Belgium and Saudi Arabia. As a musician, she's had to fight for respect, since she was not born into the caste of griots, Mali's musician-bards. It's been hard "to make people accept you for who you are," she says. The outsider's refrain is a cry for acceptance, and she sings...
...booted out of junior high band. I wasn't that gifted musically. But I kind of have musician envy...