Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both the multitude of musical experiences that have shaped the styles of its individual players and the roots of jazz itself. One thinks of avantgarde jazz in terms of raw rhythmic energy and screeching atonalism, but the Art Ensemble's musical vocabulary evokes swing, calypso, bebop circus music, rhythm'n blues and a host of other influences side-by-side with the visionary innovations of a Coltrane or an Ayler. It's not simply a case of an eclectic repertoire; these diverse styles emerge organically from the Art Ensemble's musical conception and are knit into a fabric that clearly...
...breadwinning hulk who has left them for hedonistic diversion with the mindless Annie Golden, pregnant with yet another teary eyed mulatto. Annie advises the abandoned mother not to be so uptight, we all love each other, it's cool...But even these gushing scenes are appropriate to the rhythm of levity and humor, and don't really deserve scathing criticism...
...English-speaking world is groaning about the adoption of Pinyin. Having been raised with a language that contains such combinations as "rhythm," "syzygy" and "gnathic," and in which gh, ph and ff can all sound alike, I don't see what the fuss is about. But then, conversion to the metric system hasn't progressed well, even though it too is easier...
...might yield allusions, internal consistency, and lots of symbolic geometry. But Bloom doesn't make the effort attractive enough; his book lacks any felicities of description, characterization or narrative. For one thing, its 52 chapters, each four to six pages long, leave no room for any sort of rhythm in the plot. Even worse, the book's brevity makes a mockery of its epic pretensions...
...Pendulum does not create a soothing rhythm in the mind; it sounds with the terrible urgency of a time bomb. The explosion is near, says Whiteside, the message is clear. The U.S. has already seen what dioxin has done to Viet Nam. There is no earthly reason for Americans to keep bringing the war home...