Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political, revolutionary art form, although Hair has some pretensions in this area (they failed). Probably the most stirring musical that also happened to be good was the original 1932 version of Showboat, when Paul Robeson changed the racist, stereotypical lines of "Old Man River" into a song of defiance, causing Oscar Hammerstein, the lyricist, to stomp off the practice stage muttering "Let the son of a bitch write his own goddam song...
WHATEVER BECAME of Steve Winwood? Ever since the demise of the British rock quartet Traffic when the one-time member suddenly vanished from the rock and roll scene, his fans have been asking this question. Winwood, who recorded his first hit song at the tender age of 14 and went on to rock stardom as a member of such bands as the Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith and Traffic, adopted the lifestyle of a mysterious recluse and for almost two years remained virtually unheard from...
...ascended the rostrum to the accompaniment of Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman-roughly, China's version of Hail to the Chief and a song that heretofore had been played only in Mao's honor. Significantly, the new helmsman was dressed in full military uniform, as were almost one-third of the other officials on the reviewing stand-a clear sign of the army's importance as the guarantor of the new leadership. Hua did not speak during the coronation-type ceremony, leaving the keynote task to Peking's mayor, Wu Teh, who assured...
...autobiographical material, which Copel calls "totally oral." Copel doesn't believe Blue has ever memorized any of his autobiographical work, and Blue himself denies even writing it down. "I never do a work the same way twice. I try to work like a jazz musician, blowing an old song from my soul, but blowing it ever new," he says. Blue sees the vacuum that his demise will create in his field, and has taped many of his presentations. And it is for this reason that he has begun storytelling workshops like the one taught last spring at Harvard Divinity School...
...jabs make him seem downright nasty. Davis Goodman's Jack, on the other hand, appears rather put upon, no better than a straight man to Algernon's wit. Goodman makes the balance still more unequal by his inability to vary sufficiently his intonations and break our of the sing-song which mars his delivery...