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LOS ANGELES - On summer nights in the mid-1960s, while black-and- white television crackled elsewhere in his Staten Island home with news of Southern violence and Vietnam, Bobby Lasnik would stretch out in his bedroom to let the righteous soundtrack of the civil rights movement waft into his impressionable teenage soul.
Tuned in to WBAI-FM, coming across the water from Manhattan, he heard baleful laments about injustice that he would carry with him for a lifetime.
... evidence because the police had no "reasonable suspicion" of a crime having been committed when t... the prosecution had been "based on an appeal to racism rather than reason.". Dylan's lyrics are...
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... UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS. FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. ... providing plaintiffs with access to the lyrics to music played over the stadium's public address ... by a hearing person, then it has some reason for being projected; and, therefore, a deaf person...
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The pundits, wonks and wannabes are busy debating what this week's primary elections mean. Newt Gingrich says Barack Obama has only "a 20 percent chance" of re-election two years hence (and he wants to be the reason why). Punditry and wonkery are great fun, and occasionally get things right, but a man named Jonathan Kahn actually represents something new for conservatives to sing about. He's on his way to becoming an authentic hip-pop culture hero.
When he made the front page of the Wall Street Journal, it looked like the journal of high finance had been smoking something from the '60s. Why would a guitar-plucking singer from Hollywood who wears sunglasses, a baseball cap and a fashionably scruffy beard that begs for soap and a razor be news? But you quickly learn that he's not a throwb...
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... time in the history of the Court--the lyrics of Bob Dylan in a published opinion. (1) Sprint Co... decide whether a public employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy in text messages he had sen...Evans of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit referred to as "a whopper ...
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I CANT TAKE IT! Trust me, I like rollin' around and flossin' like everyone else but this song doesn't make me want to ride. The beat is actually tight. It has a smooth appeal, which is probably the reason why [Webbie] chose to talk about ridin' around. The problem with this song is Webbie doesn't change his tone. It's like he's trying to shout over the beat instead of finding a way to mix and match the records pace. Webbie is proving to be one-dimensional which will hurt him in the long run. "How You Ridin" sounds like a mixtape song and not a single for an album. It's like all rappers want to do is talk about cars and ridin'. I thought 2Pac taught us what ridin' was really about. Webbie's lyrics are suspect and until he shows he can rap about something besides cars and girls he won't g...
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Granted, the show was very loud, but this isn't your grandfather's country music scene. Younger audiences appreciate a more "rock-like" setting along with strong lyrics and instrumentation, and Dierks delivered on all counts. Yet at the same time he gave a nod to the founders and legends of the genre, including Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, via a rousing encore that left fans screaming for more. There's a reason the audience was "standing, dancing, clapping and hooting": Dierks is a great showman with charisma, talent and sex appeal in spades.
I cannot disagree enough with "This Bentley Runs Rough," Kevin Corbett's March 29 Idle Chatter review of Dierks Bentley's March 16 concert at the Landmark Theatre. This was my fourth Bentley show in less than a year and was quite possibly his bes...
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Running contrary to middle-class values, reggaeton has been attacked as immoral, as well as artistically deficient, a threat to the social order, apolitical, misogynist, a watereddown version of hip-hop and reggae, the death sentence of salsa, and a music foreign to Puerto Rico.7 In the exemplary words of the late poet Edwin Reyes, the genre is a "primitive form of musical expression" that transmits "the most elementary forms of emotion" through its "brutalizing and aggressive monotony. In 1995, the Vice Control Division of the Puerto Rican police, assisted by the National Guard, took the unprecedented action of confiscating tapes and CDs from music stores, maintaining that the music's lyrics were obscene and promoted drug use and violence.9 The island's Department of Education join...
... to show off their hipness and try to appeal to younger voters. By early 2007, when no one comp... became impossible to repress for a second reason: It was "real." In contrast to the commercialized ...
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...Designed to appeal to evangelical teenage girls, the New Century Vers... but urges readers to listen to the lyrics, not to let lyrics change "your priorities". Other... is that perhaps evangelical adults have reason to worry. According to Phil Schwadel and Christian...
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... Homecoming videos' success involves their appeal to the nostalgic sentimentality of fundamentalist ...-five at the time of the taping, shouts the lyrics of two full verses of "No Help Wanted," while care... home place fail to suggest any obvious reason why such a song would bless the singer in any unir...
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..., one must devote the majority of his/her lyrics to discussing "empowerment through politics and kn...-Warner, Vibe is more mainstream in its appeal than the Source. In 2002, Vibe beat out the New Yo... don't know the origin, you don't know the reason, you're just cut off, you're left standing in mid-...