Search Results for Labelle

...On Languages and Labels ...

... Eyeing the backlash against disco and never wholly convinced by disco in the first place, major-label record companies unceremoniously reversed out of disco and closed down their disco departments. Only Warner Bros. held its ground. The head of the company’s disco department, Ray Caviano...

...Note on Labels and Language ...

...Notes on Labeling Places, Peoples, and Diseases ...

... diverse expressions of the black diaspora in the Americas. The chapter focuses particularly on episodes featuring jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the all-female trio Labelle, and the orchestra led by conga drum virtuoso Mongo Santamaría. Each of these episodes exemplifies the power...

... music on television Rahsaan Roland Kirk Labelle Mongo Santamaría ...

... major-label record company Warner Bros. Ray Caviano disco Billboard Disco Forum ...

... Chapter 2 investigates the jazz industry’s transition to the LP format through the activities of Prestige Records, Bob Weinstock (the label’s owner), and the musicians that this independent label employed. This chapter attends to the commercial infrastructures of the jazz record business through...

... artists were, they shared a drive toward immediate and prolific musical output that exceeded the limits of a vinyl-based market. The chapter profiles several cassette labels that thrived, most leaving little evidence of their existence. It also chronicles some of the prominent indie musicians and labels...

... Witchcraft in Africa was widely condemned by colonial constitutions and religious morals, and especially by Christianity. In Uganda, colonial legislation was later voided due to definitional ambiguities, but the condemnation of practices labeled as witchcraft remained. The impact on communities...

... Talks about the old Gods—the ones that Rosemarie’s African ancestors brought with them to America—and how the stories she grew up hearing were a way for people to talk about those Gods without being labeled “unbelievers,” a way to hold on to African understandings. African spirituality...

... Fiamma Montezemolo engages in a dialogue with public intellectual and anthropologist Néstor García Canclini to reflect on the conceptual work that emerged during the 1980s out of his encounter with the border city of Tijuana, a city that he famously labeled the “laboratory of post-modernity...

... In the context of schooling, many parents of disabled children move from a sense of isolation, joining with like-minded others, becoming persistent advocates for their children's pedagogical and social needs. This chapter shows how labeling is bureaucratically produced and how advocates are made...

... In 1956 Dizzy Gillespie became the first jazz musician to participate in the State Department’s Cultural Presentations program, a highly public aspect of the US government’s Cold War propaganda efforts abroad. Seeking to capitalize on this historic moment, Gillespie’s record label issued two LPs...

... During the Guatemalan civil war, the military labeled a generation of Maya Indigenous children as “bad seeds” to justify their elimination. Some grew anyway, and some became artists. These Maya artists now use their bodies in public spaces to expose hidden sounds, language, and memories...