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Selena, just 23 when she died, was the most popular singer of Tejano music, a style of Latin pop that mixes pretty, Mariah Carey-like melodies with Lawrence Welk-style polka beats, often spiced with throbbing dance grooves and pumping accordions. Although she began working on her first English CD several years ago, she finished only a few songs before her death. The new album is a mix of new and old material. Several of the Spanish tracks--such as Bidi Bidi Bom Bom--are remixed versions of songs that were already hits in the Latin market. Some...
...accordion may bring to mind visions of polkas and Lawrence Welk, but to the Cajuns it is the cornerstone of their distinctive sound. First introduced into Louisiana in 1850, the diatonic Cajun accordion has 10 melody buttons (instead of the more familiar piano keys) on one side and two bass accompaniment buttons on the other. "The Cajuns liked the accordion for two reasons," says Savoy. "No. 1, you could break half the metal reeds and it would still play. And No. 2, it was loud...
...example, George Thow '29, a classical trumpeter who would later play with the likes of Jimmy Dorsey and Lawrence Welk, marched alongside Scott Burbank '29. Burbank had the rare ability to play two trumpets at once...
...meetings, lecture tours and the occasional sit-down with disabled kids, did he take the time to write a new book? "I had to pay for my nurses," Hawking says (or, rather, since he can't speak, his computer-driven voice synthesizer intones, in a voice something like Lawrence Welk...
...other channels are putting on what was once available only on public TV, public TV is increasingly putting on pop crud. Why is it so civilizing to underwrite broadcasts of Wall Street Week, Cary Grant movies, John Bradshaw new age lectures, the powerfully annoying Barney -- or Lawrence Welk reruns, which are now shown on 77% of PBS stations. Chief PBS programmer Jennifer Lawson says, disingenuously, that the Welk shows are legitimate as "an alternative to violence and gratuitous sex on commercial television." Local stations find it's those shows at the not-exactly-Susan-Sontag end of things that inspire...