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...balmy January night in Mutare, a normally sleepy spread of jacaranda-shaded streets tucked amid the granite outcrops of the country's lush Eastern Highlands. In Queen's Hall, the revelers dance across a floor sticky with spilled lager, lost in the thump of the drums, the brassy blare of the horns and the hypnotic spell of the lyrics. Listen. What you hear isn't just Mapfumo's rasp through an amplifier. Mapfumo is the amplifier. "He is the voice of the people," says Ephraim, a businessman. Despite the police, who watch, arms folded, the onlookers sing - no, shout - things...
...Sheng (with Swahili)--governments around the world had championed programs to teach the standard English spoken in American and British boardrooms (TIME Global Business, Nov. 26, 2001). Now in Tainan, Taiwan, Mayor Hsu Tain-tsair has taken English instruction to a whole new level. Garbage trucks in Tainan usually blare symphonies to alert residents to bring out the trash. But since September, Hsu has had several trucks blast English phrases like "May I help you?" and "How much is it?" Dozens of five-second English lessons, which will change weekly, have been recorded for the program. Mayor Hsu says...
...Fine Animal Gorilla,” the moniker by which Koko refers to herself. While the phrase clearly bears no sexual connotation in the words “fine” and “animal,” the songwriters take full advantage of these implications. As trumpets blare and bongos thump suggestively in the background, a sultry female voice whispers “I wanna make a baby/And I don’t mean maybe/I’ll say it straight/I need to procreate.” Later in the song, a crowd of people eggs...
...Facing each other, they tap again, each step ever bouncier, and at the Oh-what-a-break break, they do a quick Lindy, their arms airplane wings. Now the band plays games: four times, they blare a five-note sequence and stop; Fred and Ginger fill in each pause with their own pedal percussion. He lifts her into a ballroom spin and, what the heck, she lifts him into one! This brings them out to the front of the gazebo, toward us. They stick their hands out, see that it's still raining and decide...
...look like a gang of Swedish pimps working the world's most elegant street corner. All five band members wear identical black dress shirts and trousers, set off by white shoes and fluorescent white ties folded to look like ascots. Offstage, the Hives prefer black T shirts that blare their individual rock-'n'-roll pseudonyms--Chris Dangerous, Dr. Matt Destruction, Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, Nicholaus Arson and Vigilante Carlstroem--in big block letters. They are not courting anonymity. Nevertheless, shortly before their concert last week at Chicago's old Metro theater, the Hives walked past their fans in the theater lobby...