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Join the heaving hundreds singing along with Thomas Mapfumo and you will see, hear, feel how music can be a liberating force. The whoops and cheers for the man they call the Lion of Zimbabwe have broken the quiet of a balmy January night in Mutare, a normally sleepy spread of jacaranda-shaded streets tucked amid the granite outcrops of the country's lush Eastern Highlands. In Queen's Hall, the revelers dance across a floor sticky with spilled lager, lost in the thump of the drums, the brassy blare of the horns and the hypnotic spell of the lyrics...
...potential revival of the Hollywood musical is upon us with Chicago—for better or worse. Ignoring its politicized ramifications as a genre revival, Chicago on its own is a pretty wild ride, showcasing once and for all that the new school of glitzy film stars can sing better than Jennifer Lopez. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and especially John C. Reilly are surprisingly watchable in this furiously edited, expensive adaptation of the murderous Broadway classic. Die-hard Bob Fosse fans may leave screaming in disgust, but fortunately for the rest of us director Rob Marshall knows the difference...
...That’s what hip-hop’s all about: money, bitches and hoes.’ And that’s not true. It’s like saying all R&B is about women taking their clothes off and not being able to sing...
Peer Contraceptive Counseling director Vincent T. Byrd ’04 is also quick to sing the praises of self-gratification. “Masturbation is the safest form of sexual activity,” he says. “And we all know that sex and war is like a condom and an oil based lubricant—they just don?...
...poets are anti-slavery. An anonymous English lady thoughtfully composed songs for plantation slaves to sing while working: "Bless the fields we dig and plant! / Lord! supply our ev'ry want: / Give our souls and bodies food, / And grateful hearts for ev'ry good." James Boswell took time out from finishing the "Life of Johnson" to write an excruciatingly bad (and long) poem defending slavery, "No Abolition of Slavery," a work that until now has not been republished for some 210 years...