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What unites these diverse musicians is their ability to strip funk down to its primal essence and use it as the foundation for their own excursions inward to the heart of Edo culture and outward to the furthest limits of sonic alchemy

That's the album's ultimate charm -- it finds Sly precisely at the point where he's balancing funk and pop

Author Marie Geissler's opening essay traces the progression from rock art through to the launch of the Western desert movement

Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke

The Seine Johnny Cash had largely stood apart fromBlending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively characters: a barge woman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer and follows it from the remote plateaus of Burgundy, through Paris, and to the sea. The Seine is a vivid,