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Musical genres, like city streets, need names to make things navigable. Artists rage against categorization, but it's a useful tool to define the boundaries of a given phenomenon. Neo-soul is the best name to call the latest emerging genre. Simply defined, neo-soul describes artists--like song-stylist Erykah Badu--who combine a palpable respect for and understanding of the classic soul of the '60s and '70s with a healthy appetite for '90s sonic experimentation and boundary crossing. Neo-soul artists tend to create music that's a good deal more real, a good deal more edgy than...
WYNTON MARSALIS (1961- ) A master soloist and bandleader and a Pulitzer prizewinning composer, Marsalis has championed Neo-Traditionalism. Committed to the belief that the style created in the years between Armstrong and Davis is America's true classical music, he cofounded Jazz at Lincoln Center. His seminal album, Standard Time, Vol. 1 (1987), treats works by Ellington and Parker with passionate devotion...
...hand, my colleague's view of Sinatra as scourge of baby boomers--the anti-Judy Collins, if you will--is a crude caricature of a complex artist, as reductive as any neo-swinger's fetishistic prattling about the man's way with a pocket handkerchief. On the other hand, it is a caricature I too used to believe...
...letter week to the Joint Committee on Appointments, Nesson accuses the Berkowitz ad hoc committee of lacking "diversity and variety of perspectives," arguing that all but one of the members of the Berkowitz ad hoc were either far from Berkowitz's neo-conservative positions ideologically, or were not the "experts in the field" outlined in the dean's letter...
...prominent neo-conservatives Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb, Kristol was raised in Manhattan's liberal Upper West Side. In 1965, at the age of 12, he passed out leaflets supporting the candidacy of future Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) for a seat on the city council...