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Searing Conviction. "Soul" combines searing emotional conviction, a surging rhythmic pulse, and earthy-poetic lyrics in updated variations on the Negro blues tradition. Long a staple of the "rhythm and blues" packaged for a chiefly Negro market, soul has increasingly influenced the work of white performers - notably rock 'n' rollers, many of whom frankly imitate Negro originals. Now, after the success of such Negro singers as Lou Rawls and Dionne Warwick, the authentic soul sound has come into its own in the white, teen-dominated pop market. "It satisfies a thirst for the idiomatic, the untrammeled, the pure...
...Erza Pound, 81, now living in Italy, fathered modern English poetry, freed it from excessive strictures of meter, rhetoric and prosody. One of his earliest converts was T. S. Eliot, who sensed the dilemma of modern, urban and areligious man, and whose dry, ironic style and endless rhythmic ways of weaving contemporary sounds are echoed in virtually every poet's work today...
Avant-garde jazz nowadays makes a lot of noise and a lot of speed, but rhythmically it has scarcely moved out of the '20s; the boys are still thumping along mostly in a 4/4 beat. This old-fashioned conformity bothered Trumpeter-Composer Don Ellis, so he organized a 21-piece band in Los Angeles, beefed up the rhythm section (four drummers, three double bassists), and sent the meter flying. To the modern far-out sound of jazz, he has added an exciting rhythmic pulse by playing in meters with 5, 9, 11, 19 and even 27 beats...
...been altered is the "Breakthrough," which denotes the abrupt attainment of dynamic reading. Kilgo desrcibes his Breakthrough in an unmistakably religious manner, "It was as if I was in a trance. My vision blurred and suddenly I could see the entire page in one glance. It was induced by rhythmic repetition over the same page many times." The term has been dropped, in favor of a more gradual description of success, because it was not conducive to profit making. "We have been instructed not to talk about it much anymore. Too often it is not substantial and students return...
...counterpoint and rhythms of the fast movements with complete confidence. Unfortunately, Street was consistently slightly overbalanced by the piano. His playing never became at all fiery, while Kalam's did on occasion. In every other respect, however, the performers' coordination was perfect--quite an achievement considering the dynamic and rhythmic liberties they took with the sonata...