Sentences with phrase «american musical traditions»

Mr. Crouch, a Dallas painter, exhibits mixed - media works inspired by the rich African American musical traditions.

Since his inclusion in the 2010 Whitney Biennial — whose Sculpture Court he transformed into an installation that served as a communal gathering space for performances, social engagement, and meditation — Gates has become a near ubiquitous presence in museum exhibitions, biennials, and lecture halls throughout North America, Europe, and beyond, showing his sculpture, channeling African - American musical traditions, and preaching a gospel of ground - up urban revitalization.

He is a widely traveled lecturer and author of 27 books on topics including human rights, the ministry and African American musical traditions.

Those latter steps require attention not just to Bayles, and what she learned (with help from Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison) about the Afro - American musical tradition, but also to the sort of socio - cultural analysis we do so much of here at pomocon, which derives from we've learned from Tocqueville most of all.

Not exact matches

In 1988, when Latin American and North American Christian communicators met in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a highlight of the week was the presentation of indigenous songs and dance by Puerto Rican Christians who carry on a rich and sophisticated religious musical tradition for the sheer joy of it.

It's not every day that you get to see two great American traditions - guitar / bass / drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater - so thoroughly, mutually degraded.

The corny stuff and all - American hokum is in keeping with comic book tradition, but for an audience primed for action it may prove wearying — a patriotic musical sequence in the George M. Cohan tradition is the most egregious example and might remind some of Peter Parker's indulgent disco moves in Spider - Man 3.

These include his relationship with education, his links with modernist architecture, his view of the tradition of painting and of American literature, and his approach to the vernacular, popular culture, youthful initiatory rites and styles of musical subcultures.