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COVER STORY
Repetition
Kurt Andersen and hip-hop artist Guru talk about how repeating words, images, and sounds draw us into a piece of art.
  Repetition,
Art, & The Brain
What exactly is going on in our brains
when we feed it the same thing over and over? Produced by Matt Holzman.
 Go
to the necks.com
Go
to Neurobiologist Norman Weinberger's site
Music Hooks
For centuries composers and musicians have been engaged
by repetition. WNYC music host John Schaefer joins Kurt and Guru in the
studio, to play them some examples.
Go
to John Schaefer's New Sounds
Trisha Brown
This modern dance choreographer's focus has changed over the past 30 years, but she continues to return to some of the same gestures and ideas. Reported by Gena Rho and produced by Leital Molad and Julie Burstein.
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to Trisha Brown Dance Company website
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Exercise Record
You want repetitions? How about 15 thigh squats a minute, set to military music. Produced by Andy Lanset
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GUEST
Guru
Guru (a.k.a Keith Elam) is a rapper, composer and musical chameleon. He is the lyrical half of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr and over the last two decades he's collaborated with just about everyone -- from jazz and funk legends Herbie Hancock and Isaac Hayes to vocalists Macy Gray and Erykah Badu. In 2001, Guru returned to his old-school rap roots with his new album "Baldhead Slick and Da Click."
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to Guru's Jazzmatazz website
Go
to Guru's Baldhead Slick website
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Commentary
I Can’t Resist a List.
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Now
Playing
Some Parades for Charlie's Dad. One recent
Sunday in New York, composer Neely Bruce brought together six marching
bands, a dozen choruses, a West African Drumming Ensemble, Javanese
Gamelan, West Indian Steel Drums, bagpipers and a fife and drum corps.
Jeff Lunden was there for this afternoon of organized chaos.
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to Lincoln Center Out of Doors
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to Neely Bruce’s Site at Wesleyan University
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to a site about Convergence
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