Word: rhythmics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climax-Beethoven's formidable Ninth ("Choral") Symphony-was a feat of musical levitation. The intelligence and spirit of the interpretation, along with the sheer force and clarity of Shaw's baton, lifted the performance above its own technical flaws-some faulty string playing, moments of rhythmic dislocation-to provide music that frequently soared with an exhilarating sense of freedom...
Derivative Mewing. Not so long ago, the pop scene was going nowhere. Rock 'n' roll had catapulted into the bestseller charts in the 1950s on the chugging riffs of Bill Haley and His Comets (Rock Around the Clock) and the rhythmic caterwauling of Elvis Presley. But even they were bleached-out copies of the vibrant, earthy rhythm-and-blues sung in the subculture of Negro music. Until the early 1960s, rock 'n' roll went through a doldrum of derivative mewing by white singers, with only occasional breakthroughs by such Negroes as Ray Charles and Fats Domino...
...group called the Satyrs, which occasionally accompanies its pulsing din with such tape-recorded sounds as those of a thunderstorm or a subway train. Classically trained, Steig (son of Cartoonist William Steig) hums into as well as plays his amplified flute, mixes shimmering, bluesy cascades of notes with jabbing, rhythmic interjections, sometimes bending tones into piercing dissonances, sometimes dissolving into trills or fluttery tremolos. Jazz Critic Whitney Balliett describes Steig's musical message as "messianic, for it suggests the way out of the gloomy muddle that jazz has fallen into." > Larry Coryell, 24, guitarist in the Gary Burton Quartet...
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...