Sentences with phrase «from black musicians»

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Tania Bryer sits down with Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am to discuss his route from musician to philanthropist.

Other blacks, some of them musicians who worked jazz up from the South, would feel the touch of fame, or once in a while have the thought that their names meant something to people outside their own.

Against this backdrop comes a series of unique takes on southern stereotypes, ranging from a bizarre Klan rally to a black musician (Chris Thomas King) who claims to have sold his soul to the devil.

Just as the girls are close to landing a record deal from an important producer (Curtis Armstrong, adding to his legacy of black musician films in an apparent effort to further shed his reputation as «Booger from Revenge of the Nerds»), Sister's troubled situation costs them their big break.

Not to be confused with Samuel L. Jackson's other snake movie, «Black Snake Moan» is the sophomore effort from writer / director Craig Brewer, whose debut film «Hustle & Flow» (another movie about a Southern musician battling his inner demons) earned the director critical acclaim in 2005 as one of the generation's most promising young talents.

Limited Edition 2 Disc DVD set & Blu - Ray Extras: 36 minute Black Metal short film of deleted scenes, Alternate ending, Outtakes, The Cutting Room with musicians not in the film including: Enslaved, Ted «Nocturno Cutlo» Skjellum from Darkthrone, and Jørn «Necrobutcher» from Mayhem, plus more with Ulver, Immortal, Jan Axel «Hellhammer» Blomberg, Gylve» Fenriz» Nagell and Kjetil «Frost» Haraldstad, 46 more minutes of Varg Vikernes and a 45 minute class on the history of black metal with FBlack Metal short film of deleted scenes, Alternate ending, Outtakes, The Cutting Room with musicians not in the film including: Enslaved, Ted «Nocturno Cutlo» Skjellum from Darkthrone, and Jørn «Necrobutcher» from Mayhem, plus more with Ulver, Immortal, Jan Axel «Hellhammer» Blomberg, Gylve» Fenriz» Nagell and Kjetil «Frost» Haraldstad, 46 more minutes of Varg Vikernes and a 45 minute class on the history of black metal with Fblack metal with Fenriz

Pop and Lydon aren't the only musicians set to appear in the film, as Malick has also recruited Arcade Fire, Alan Palomo, Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes and The Black Lips, who were all filmed at an Austin City Limits Music Festival from a number of years ago.

Jack Black is an actor and musician from California.

Here are 25 from this year's lineup that have us salivating — from docu - profiles on musicians, artists and iconoclasts to left - field biopics on raunchy comedians, black metal Norwegians and paraplegic cartoonists, postapocalyptic character studies to sociopolitical satires.

A black and white re-enactment of a true - crime grabber starts it: artist Ed Ruscha and his buddy, the musician Mason Williams, autopsied a junked typewriter they threw from a car window at 90mph on a deserted road, per Ruscha's conceptual piece, Royal Road Test.

Shazam tells me that the «Black Skinhead» sound - alike used in the Logan Lucky trailer originated from a similar group of musicians.

Coffin fills the plastic structure with houseplants and invites a wide variety of musicians — from the electronica band Black Dice to experimental singer - songwriter Arto Lindsay — to come inside and play.

In his personal work, aside from self - producing two albums (Savage Journey and Orfeus Uprising), Matt created and curated one of the flagship events at the start of a second wave of underground black artists and musicians.

They ranged from one - time improvisations — such as his black - streaked «Automobile Tire Print,» which he made by having the musician John Cage drive his car over 20 sheets of paper in the street — to a decade of sustained creativity as the resident designer of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

So the artist began to mix the three influences — the attitude of musicians like Simone and Davis, the iconic style of old world European painting, and the everyday black folks he knew from the neighborhood or saw strutting through the streets — in a distinct visual style that has been referred to as «cool realism.»

The presentation of Frances Stark's paintings, which employ text appropriated from the writings of musician Ian Svenonius, constitutes a vigorous defense of censorship on grounds of its necessity in equalizing political representation in cultural spaces, much as Black suggests.

Focusing primarily on African American artists in and out of the Black Arts Movement, the exhibition features approximately 100 objects assembled from the Smart Museum's collection and other public and private collections, including art and ephemera associated with the Wall of Respect, Black Creativity, the Civil Rights Movement, AfriCOBRA, Afrofuturism, the Hairy Who, and the radical sounds of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

From South African exiles — most of them artists, writers and musicians (Dumile Feni, Louis Maqhubela, Gavin Jantjes, Louis Moholo, Chris McGregor, Alex la Guma, Pallo Jordan, etc.)-- to the Caribbean community in Handsworth, George Hallett's images stand as a remarkable contribution to the history of Black people in England.

Echoing a 1968 composition by Frank Zappa, from which it also borrows the title, Farmer's «Let's Make the Water Turn Black» — produced especially for the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art — presents an improvised chronology of the American musician.

There, from the late 1960s to mid-1970s, he was part of a group of pioneering artists and jazz musicians ensconced in LA's black arts scene.

The most complex, and affecting, of the icons at Dia is icon VIII (1962 - 3), which combines structural elements from icon VII and icon V. Flavin dedicated this work to the 1920s blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, and gave it a loaded title; the musician is identified by name and also with a racial slur, apparently intended as a comment on the dismissive treatment of groundbreaking black musicians and on other forms of lingering prejudice in these pivotal years of the Civil Rights movement.

Gates's construction also serves as a contemplative space meant to inspire dialogue across philosophical and cultural boundaries on topics ranging from politics and religion to culture, food, and art as well as a performative space for the Black Monks of Mississippi, a group of Baptist - Buddhist musicians who mix slave spirituals, monastic chants, and jazz to create a singular sonorous experience.

Her process of coupling microsampled sound pieces spliced from avant - garde black jazz musicians with sculpted or painted visual abstraction that directly references the work of her white, male, Modernist influences elucidates the innovations of her predecessors, while creating a radical, new space for the reading of Modernism.

Writer, musician, and producer Greg Tate reads from a manifesto, «Kalahari Hopscotch, or Notes Toward a 20 Volume History of Black Science Fiction and Afrofuturism» at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on Sept. 15, 2012.