Word: revivalist
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When jazz began, America had little music to call its own. There were ballads, popular and folk songs, and some symphonic music by American-born but European-oriented composers. Bubbling in the New Orleans melting pot, however, was a disreputable mix of African, Spanish, French and Protestant revivalist musical influences that would mature into a uniquely American idiom. Black music had wandered away from its African grandparents, picked up a few hymn tunes, worked in fields and on railroads, and been sung to make slavery endurable. Around 1900, in the honky-tonks and whorehouses of New Orleans, it became jazz...
...joke is important, because Hughes takes it from an article in the New York Times. He is telling his sophisticated Boston audience at the start that he, an Iowa man, can speak their language. Hughes' oratorical reputation pictures him as a revivalist minister, but for the moment he submerges that image in order to draw in his listeners. Accordingly, he begins with the war. Laos is to China as Mexico is to the United States, he says, and how would we feel if enemy troops were stationed in Canada...
...lines, as I read my notes, are great. Barnard Hughes as General Fitzhugh (he played the mad revivalist-pimp in Midnight Cowboy ) shoves a Sears Rocbuck size military catalogue in the lap of Nonomura's Prince Gow. "See if there's anything in there that grabs...
...pure blues or pure anything. Rather, it is a swinging, soulful, infectious blend of every conceivable style that has come out of the "music of my people." Opening the Philadelphia program with The Times They Are AChangin, she made Bob Dylan's classic folk tune sound like a revivalist hymn; yet she never lost any of its satiric bite. At the Metropolitan, Langston Hughes' Backlash Blues had an angular, hard-rock quality that pointed up its bitter message: "Do you think that all colored people are just second-class fools? /Mr. Backlash, I'm gonna leave...
...sect promotes its cause-as it does in Japan-with a revivalist fervor that suggests an Oriental version of Moral Re-Armament. Its Youth Division has a flashy fife-and-drum corps replete with majorettes. Its thrice-weekly newspaper, the World Tribune, is filled with ardent testimonials of what conversion has meant. Every member is expected to help expand the rolls by the practice of shakubuku*-proselytizing -wherever he goes. Those who can afford it are urged to make one of the chartered-jet pilgrimages to the head temple of Taisekiji in Japan, which more than 10,000 members visit...