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...Though classical in its scoring, it traverses the various music genres of the African diaspora — from west African drumming to gospel, jazz, soul and R&B — the aim being, says Witter-Johnson, to showcase...
...With the likes of “Make It Easy on Yourself”, initially a 1962 hit for the R&B singer Jerry Butler, Bacharach learnt to incorporate the sounds of black American pop into his orchestrations....
...In his teens, he would hang around on the fire escape outside the R&B club Klooks Kleek listening to the cream of the sixties underground....
...“China has been tapping into global commercial and scientific networks, promoting technology transfers, foreign R&D investment and training of Chinese scientists and engineers overseas,” says Michael Raska...
...So, too, are the performative contractions (“w/r/t” as “with respect to”), lists and self-conscious rhetorical tropes that pepper his non-fiction....
...In the 1960s and 1970s, as a songwriter, producer, session pianist and solo performer, he updated New Orleans’ traditions of street parades and R&B for the new age of soul and funk....
...The rolled r’s trip off the tongue like everyday French. The melodies lie somewhere between the boulevard, the variety show and the smoky allure of cabaret....
...To the T and S of Eliot, the F and R of Leavis, the D and H of Lawrence? What did the “M” stand for anyway? Was it Maxwell?...
...We’d lose Blazing Saddles, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and every avant-garde opera production of the past 20 years. Millions loved the first Ritchie Holmes....
...It gained a new follower last month, when Elvis Costello, the British singer, said his “conscience” would not allow him to perform in Israel....
...Coble (R-NC) 23. Conyers (D-MI) 24. Costello (D-IL) 25. Dahlkemper (D-PA) 26. L. Davis (D-TN) 27. DeFazio (D-OR) 28. DeLauro (D-CT) 29. Dingell (D-MI) 30. Doggett (D-TX) 31....
...Its admirers include Elvis Costello, who says “the spoilt complaints of western pop musicians pale into insignificance compared to the defiant human spirit contained in these recordings”....
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