Word: offbeaters
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...louder, increasingly confrontational volumes. The scene challenges the old cliche that music is the universal language. Often, in fact, it is an expression of what divides us--Shania Twain and Tupac Shakur don't share much of a crossover audience. It's therefore a delight to encounter two engaging, offbeat new rap groups, the Japanese-American duo Cibo Matto and the Haitian-American trio the Fugees. Neither makes overtly integrationist music--no hip-hop covers of We Shall Overcome--but both of them cross cultural and musical boundaries to create a sound that is bold and fresh...
...things that defines ska is the offbeat. When [Johnson] was working with musicians and trying to get that sound, he's like 'No, no, no, I want you to play ska, ska, ska, ska, like skavoovie, ska, ska. That's where the word ska comes from, the sound that the guitars make on the offbeat...
...That's the offbeat, this is one and one and, like it's the 'and' of the beat. Ska is defined by the rhythm section...
DIED. NANCY GRAVES, 54, sculptor; of cancer; in New York City. Graves emerged on the New York art scene in the late '60s with sculptures of a remarkably offbeat subject--camels. Ostensibly realistic, these works were decidedly abstract in their fascination with form. They presaged all that followed from Graves-witty postminimalist pieces with an almost scientific sense of nature and a painterly feel for color...
...that end, Miller has tried to develop her own trademark features. She hopes to interview "offbeat celebrities you may not see elsewhere." Her guests on the first week, however, were the sort of offbeat celebrities TV has managed to overexpose thoroughly, like RuPaul and Roger Clinton. Miller's real twist on the late-night formula is to employ a trio of sketch players who perform three or four skits each night. So far, the material has been topical and clever: one sharp sketch featured a Woody Allen impersonator directing a teenage girl in a Calvin Klein...