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...American pop ears. "My album might be disputed by purists as not reggae enough, but I wanted it to be eclectic and crossover," he explains. "To hell with categories." Maybe so, but Shaggy's triumph could help recapture some of the diversity pop lost after the reggae and ska waves of the 1990s faded. So when you hear Madonna and Britney Spears singing to a reggae beat a year from now, remember, it all started with Shaggy...
Rice has in its radio station, KTRU, possibly the most archetypical "college radio" station in the country. Unlike Harvard's student-run WHRB, which plays commercials and follows a structured, fixed format, KTRU plays an eclectic mix of punk, ska, underground hip-hop, world music and several other genres. Like WHRB, KTRU is housed in university space and puts the university name on its letterhead. Unlike at Harvard, however, Rice undergraduates fund the station directly. KTRU also allows anyone to apply for a DJ position, although students receive a preference...
...Rice's Athletics Director asked that KTRU double the number of baseball and women's basketball games it broadcasts. The Advisory Committee eventually decided on a formula halfway between the status quo and the proposal. Simultaneously, two Rice DJs lodged a public protest. The two arrived for their punk-ska shift on one day in late November and discovered that a women's basketball game had not yet ended. Angry, the two decided to broadcast their show right over the basketball broadcast stream...
...international artists on display - no Britney, no 'N Sync, no Limp Bizkit, no Eminem. Instead there was a huge section of MPB that featured such younger artists as Marisa Monte (a fine young vocalist who is a bit like Dido or Beth Orton with some samba thrown in), the ska-pop-reggae band LS Jack, and such veterans as Chico Buarque, Ivan Lins and Gal Costa...
...Georges, Jeremy Funke '04 makes a doubtful leading man around which to anchor the production. He quickly forgets to affect drunkenness and in his black sneakers, black jeans, too-long belt and skinny tie, he looks more like a reject from a ska band than anyone who would be comfortable in the domestic sphere. Stephen Quinlan '04 is a high point as Jeremiah, the aforementioned smug butler; he carefully tries to integrate his often detached-sounding spoken lines into a coherent dramatic performance...