Jazz/Blues
We Don't Need No Education: Savannah School District Slashes Music Programs, National Survey Claims Music Classes Remain "Steady"
Good Enough for Jazz: New Scientific Study Suggests Brain Correlation Between Music and Language
Like Chomsky said, the power of language stretches beyond mere dialogue and conversation. And like MIT's Marvin Minsky maintained, many art forms, too, have their own language-like associations (not conceived or exchanged orally but through the vast interpretations of the piece, itself). Jazz, in particular, can channel its own kind of language--embedded in the call-and-response lines and the licks of improvisation, especially. And unlike Bernstein's whole classical music as language goof, the power of jazz's rhetoric has now been proven to aid in routine speech and verbal exchange. Make a Puss Noise Here: New, Hybrid Acne-Causing Bacteria, P. Acnes Zappae, Named After Frank Zappa
How fitting for the late Frank Zappa to maintain his legacy of genre-bending fukitol by having his name attached to an acne-causing bacteria. Said bacterial name: P. Acnes Zappae. And like the Barking Pumpkin, himself, it's a unique strain able to transmit itself from human to, well, grapevines.
