May 2018 Volume 46, No
May 2018 Volume 46, No. 4 Spring Orgy® Period 95.3 FM N WHRB PROGRAM GUIDE Wednesday, May 2 noon COMMONWEALTH HIP HOP Spring Orgy® Period Hip hop is the defining trend in modern world music. But world rap music is, at present, divided. Commonwealth nations have an enduring history of English, and this colors their music May, 2018 to a substantial degree. Nations never colonized by the English Empire make hip hop that sounds substantially different. We explore the hip hop traditions of countries like Jamaica, Canada, Tuesday, May 1 India, South Africa, Northern Ireland and Nigeria. In some cases, this will involve examining the way American rap music 12:00 am ORCHID TAPES and foreign rap cultures influenced each other. In others, it means 5:00 am THE DISCOGRAPHY OF FRED HERSCH Fred Hersch is one of the greatest jazz pianists of his taking a closer look at how the English language has shaped generation. Yet what makes him especially interesting is his world history, even for songs and artists using other languages. extraordinary versatility. With collaborators including Stan Getz, 5:00 am PROFESSOR LONGHAIR AND THE Bill Frisell, Dawn Upshaw, Joshua Bell, and Audra McDonald, NEW ORLEANS BLUES Hersch refuses to limit himself and his playing to one genre. We Down in New Orleans, the Blues is done differently. explore many of Hersch’s solo albums, as well as albums he has Certainly, any one alive can tell you what it is to have the Blues, collaborated on, in a celebration of his virtuosic and technical but it takes a different kind of touch to weave the feeling with abilities rhumba, paint it bold with calypso and lay it down with mambo.
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