Word: rockers
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...talk about American music without talking about Black people and Black musical forms. And you cannot discuss Black music without taking it account its edginess (think of bluesman Robert Johnson, bebop innovator Charlie Parker, rocker Little Richard, soulman Otis Redding, et al.), its rebelliousness (anyone from Big Mama Thornton to Jimi Hendrix) and the fact that edginess and rebelliousness ultimately appeals to white young people as much as it does to Black young people. That and "white music" suffering slumps from time to time made the white embrace of hip-hop inevitable - has there really been anything interesting happening...
...coming days. His mother Phyllis Moore pulls out a stack of blank greeting cards for him to choose from. "This one says, 'With special thoughts of you,' and has a cute teapot on it," she calmly tells her son as he sits on his well-worn living-room rocker. "This one has a little girl with flowers." He's not sure exactly what he will say in his farewell notes to his three sisters and two stepsisters. He figures the words will come to him when he starts to write. The hardest one will...
...says, laughing. In So Pure she shows off her skills. The video, choreographed by Kevin O'Day and Anne White, features Morissette dancing through the decades--at a '50s sock hop, at a '90s rave. She taps, she swings, she celebrates movement. It's a lovely sequence: a rocker, not known for her footwork, surrendering to the beat. "I was dying to dance again," she says. What you got, Alanis? Sisqo may have a new challenger...
...were, between the script's lines. Zellweger blooms in this context. Her naivete is radical, of course, but that imparts a fierce serenity to her quest. Mostly, the people she encounters on the road and in Los Angeles quickly come to understand that she is off her rocker--except the soap-opera folk, who think she's an actress going to any lengths for a job--but there is such sweetness in her determination, such an endearing faith in the destiny she alone perceives, that they help her along. Zellweger is lovely in the role...
...vocabulary of noise. Hendrix in his day was sometimes criticized for making music that was too "white" (i.e., too rock- infused), when in reality he was reaching past the pop-soul styles of his time and drawing on African-American blues traditions. The new boxed set features a blues rocker called "It's Too Bad" that touches on the subject. "They say until you come back completely black," Hendrix sings, "go back where you came from...