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contrapuntal
Music characterized by counterpoint


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Evans played on Miles Davis's classic Kind Of Blue album and, with a series of stunning recordings beginning in the late 1950s, virtually invented the contrapuntally conversational piano-bass-drums trio, as jazz music's improvising equivalent of the string quartet.
quot;(9) Faithful to what Bhabha aptly calls "fixation/fetishization of stereotypical knowledge as power," Said brilliantly rereads Williams through the following paradox: "Because Williams'' Anglocentrism is so pronounced and stubborn a theme in his work, because of that we can distinguish and differentiate the other ethnocentrisms with which his work in geographical and historical terms interacts contrapuntally.
At once theatrical and conceptually orchestrated, the show unfolded contrapuntally and over time, as the artist--working with Schaulager director Theodora Vischer--jettisoned chronological, thematic, and stylistic retrospective modes to restage his own storied development, creating new connections and contexts for his work.
 
 
 
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