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The title of Janet Jackson's new album, "20 Y.O.," is both an invitation to take note of her perpetually youthful looks (aided by the ritual magazine photographs of her near-naked, now forty-year-old body) and a directive for how to think about her career. Jackson, like her eight siblings, began performing as a child--much longer than twenty years ago. In the nineteen-seventies, she played the innocent, physically abused preteen Penny Gordon on the TV series "Good Times," and in the early eighties she recorded two not particularly good or popular albums. Then, in 1986, she released "Control," the record that she evidently considers to be the true starting point of her ...
- Rhythm Nation.(JOrdana Toback creates new work, Poon)
- Magazine article from: WWD April 24, 2003 700+ words
...weave their way through the rehearsal studio. They writhe in place for an eight count, throwing more attitude than Janet Jackson when she's nasty. Then Toback turns like a samurai on the quick draw, slashing and carving the air, before hitting a calm...
- Rhythm Nation: A Guide to American Jazz.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 10, 2001 700+ words
...series of exclusive essays on the music that has been called America's greatest cultural contribution to world. WHAT: Rhythm Nation: A Guide to American Jazz, a comprehensive overview of the origins, history and impact of a music that showed the world...
- Rhythm nation.(Cuba: A New History; Last Dance in Havana: The Final Days of...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Bardach, Ann Louise October 25, 2004 700+ words
CUBA: A New History. By Richard Gott. Yale. 384 pp. $35. LAST DANCE IN HAVANA: The Final Days of Fidel and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution. By Eugene Robinson. Free Press. 272 pp. $25. CUBA AND ITS MUSIC: From the First Drums to the mambo. By Ned Sublette. Chicago Review. 672 pp. $36. Since
- No-rhythm nation.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Popular Mechanics May 1, 2005 700+ words
It turns out Americans not only have two left feet, they have two left ears. In a study published in Psychological Science, researchers pitted the listening skills of North American adults against Macedonian and Bulgarian immigrants and U.S. infants. Turns out that babies and foreigners have a
- Paul Stanley's rhythm nation.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Guitar Player Fox, Darrin January 1, 2007 700+ words
WHILE HIS ORIGINAL KISS COHORT, GENE SIMMONS, plays his life out on reality television, Paul Stanley is actually making music. Live to Win [Universal], is Stanley's first solo effort since 1978, when all four of Kiss's members released concurrent solo albums. Aside from himself, Stanley brought in
- EXTRAVAGANT JANET JACKSON GREATEST HITS PACKAGE & HOME VIDEO DUE OCTOBER 10 ON...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 14, 1995 700+ words
...ESCAPADE From "JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION 1814" (1989) 6. MISS YOU MUCH From "JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION" 7. LOVE WILL NEVER DO (Without You) From "JANET JACKSON'S RHYTHM NATION" 8. ALRIGHT From "JANET...
- Janet Jackson: a new love, a new nation and new Black pride.
- Magazine article from: Ebony Johnson, Robert E. February 1, 1990 700+ words
...recognized the vision of Jackson's new nation, but...minute film on it. The Rhythm Nation video is the most far...that her brothers. The Jackson Five, won a citywide...Gary, Ind., creating Rhythm Nation was the most ambitions...
- JACKSON LISTENS TO OTHERS, HEARS HERSELF.(Show)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 19, 1990 700+ words
...doubt "Control" was Jackson's launch pad into...and last year's "Rhythm Nation 1814" were multimillion...who is now battling Jackson at the top of the charts...choreographed the "Rhythm Nation" show. In one of her...friendly than Michael - Jackson told Essence magazine...
