Word: whatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the third annual Guardian Conference meets in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room this morning to hear President Conant open the discussion on propaganda, it will be the beginning of what promises to be the best of the series of meetings with a star-studded collection of authors, professors...
"Stiff" and "relaxed" are two ways of playing Swing. One is termed bad, the other good. What are the two styles, who plays them and why is one better than the other?
For examples, let's take two records by one band and see which is what and why. About a year and a half ago, Gene Krupa's band made a record called "I Know That You Know" (Brunswick). It was the first record they made, and as a matter of...
What the good relaxed band does it just the opposite of the stiff band. They depend on the ear of the listener to hold the idea of a steady beat and then they begin go play behind it. This is the famous "colored lag," that which takes years to develop...
This playing "behind" and "ahead" of the beat is the difference between "all the colored boys" having rhythm and "all of the white boys" not having it. It's not a question of having it: it's a question of knowing what to do with it, once you've set...