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...Mississippi Mass Choir do make appearances. And a few of the performers featured deserve a shot on Leno or Conan O'Brien, chief among them the spirited New Orleans hip-hop brass band Soul Rebels. Most of the acts on River of Song, however, seem content with local renown. They display a commitment that's deeper than celebrity: for them, music isn't simply a means to acquire wealth or fame; it's a method of preserving traditions and a way of life. "We, the young generation, are the glue that keeps the culture going," says Geno Delafose, a Creole...
Alanis Morissette's new CD, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, is her second shot at putting out a good second album. Her 1991 debut, the dance-pop album Alanis, which featured such lyrics as "You're just a party party party boy," brought her modest renown, mostly in her native Canada and mostly (one presumes) among people there who don't read lyric sheets. After her uninspired 1992 follow-up, Now Is the Time, which included a wistful song about standing in the rain outside a Rod Stewart concert, her career stalled. But Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill...
...began writing poems in her childhood but decided, once she understood her parents' renown, to keep them private "for the obvious reason that comparisons would be made." Instead, after a period of adolescent turmoil--anorexia, an impulsive and brief marriage to a biker at age 19--Hughes became a painter and an author of children's books. Eventually, she settled in Wooroloo, "a small hamlet, very small," in Australia, to paint landscapes of the stark, almost surreal terrain. And, as it happened, to write poetry that other people might read...
Holman gained renown in radiology circles in 1986 for his application of SPECT to identify brain activity associated with Alzheimer's disease...
...reviews have ranged from the splenetic ("a clunky, leaden novel"--the New York Times) to the ecstatic ("the strangest and most original book that Morrison has written"--the New Yorker). Everyone who cares about contemporary fiction will doubtless be talking about Paradise, and not only because of the renown of its author. To read the novel is to be pulled into a passionate, contentious and sometimes violent world and to confront questions as old as human civilization itself...