Word: mainstreaming
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...notable simply for its casting, but its blackness goes deeper. Writer and co-creator John Ridley (Three Kings) has produced a story about the ascendancy of black pop culture in America, not only among black people, and the ironies that result when the art of the dispossessed goes mainstream. Ridley, who is black, is fascinated by the world of hip-hop but has proper bourgeois qualms about the violence and nasty language toward women. (Grady calls his girlfriend "bitch" while they make out, and she takes offense. "I don't mean like 'bitch' bitch," he explains. "I mean like sexy...
...been through the mainstream school system, schools where you fall through the cracks,” Murray says. “I had just lost faith in the school system...
...Mainstream Hollywood was not built from risky business but from safe investments. All the acting and directing talent is nothing without opportunities to display it. This is Lin’s distinctly pragmatic view of the film industry, understandable since he couldn’t afford—literally—to be idealistic...
...clear that these three have the chops to be “real” jazz musicians. Yet that’s not what they want—they seem to love the primacy of motion in funk. Not only do Soulive fall in with the older jazz and mainstream blues-rock scenes, they also figure prominently in the CD racks and playlists of jam fans everywhere. Soulive’s songs evoke Phish, with all the improvisatory solos and greater technical mastery, but without the forced lyrics and repetition. In contrast, muscular funk riffs and a musical tightness mark...
...related weblogs--war blogs, for short--have soared in popularity since the hostilities began. Their chief attraction is that they offer perspectives overlooked in most U.S. news reports--from war photos too grisly to print to viewpoints too far outside the political mainstream. And because their diary-like formats are so informal, they tend to invite reader participation, discussion and fiery debate...