 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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'Swamp' still part of pop, for now; Indigenous form of rock 'n' roll could be on brink of extinction
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ROBERT, La. - From out of the postwar swamps of south Louisiana,
there arose a music all its own - a feel-good sound known as "swamp
pop."
A half-century later, this indigenous form of early American rock
'n' roll teeters on the edge of extinction, relegated to weather-
beaten bars and weekend family festivals in the unique stretch of
land between New Orleans and the Texas plains.
But swamp pop - a rhythm & blues beat beneath a wailing Cajun
voice - refuses to die.
"To me, it's down-home Louisiana music, it's what we know, it's
what we feel and what we breathe," said Janna Adams, a devoted fan ...
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"Beware of the Wolf": The American Academy.(ROME)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...interesting change for one of Rome's august foreign institutes...with winners of the coveted Rome Prize. The exhibition, titled...took place in both rooms of the Academy's gallery and was on view...distance between New York and Rome was represented by black thread...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Artists cherish years in Rome; Time at American Academy remains a lifelong influence.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...been living and working in Rome on a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Asked whether the Eternal...Center curator who runs the American Academy's School of Fine Arts...but its main facility is in Rome - an imposing villa designed...
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Rome's Embassy of the Arts; At the American Academy, a New Director and an Old Budget
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...director of the American Academy, one of more than a dozen national academies of art and culture in Rome, he is an ambassador...own "embassy" of American classicists, medievalists...striving to make the academy live up to its ambitious...artists to gather in Rome to commune, ...
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One hundred years of inspiration. (American Academy in Rome, Italy)
Magazine article from: Town & Country
; ...winning fellows of the American Academy in Rome go on to greatness...The idea for the academy was conceived when...obvious to him that Rome was the best place...in it. Why not an American Academy in Rome, modeled after the...
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For the Love of Culture; 100 Years of the American Academy in Rome
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Medici in Italy, the Prix de Rome has been the golden apple...winning the prize of a stay in Rome, to the great improvement...week in Washington, the American Academy in Rome, the only one of the academies of 24 nations supported primarily...
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American Academy in Rome Offers Prize Competition
Newspaper article from: Italian Voice, The
; ...The 08-31-2000 American Academy in Rome Offers Prize Competition...American Academy in Rome is among the leading...please visit the Academy's website or at contact...requesting information. American Academy in Rome * 7 East 60 Street...
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Friends, Americans, Countrymen; The Academy in Rome & Its Classical Feast
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...give $100,000 to finance the American Academy in Rome. Last night the Academy's supporters...built its West Wing. The dream of Rome as the home of the Muses and a...winners of the greatly coveted Rome Prize-one or two years in Rome...
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Heading for Rome; D.C. Native Michael Hersch Wins Academy's Composition Prize
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...01, given by the American Academy in Rome. At age 28, the D...study at the American Academy, which also provides...and writers. Similar academies for artists and scholars...are maintained in Rome by 23 other countries...
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Rome is Where the Art is.(American Academy in Rome award information)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Interior Design
; The American Academy in Rome recently announced the winners of this year's prestigious Rome Prize, which provides fellowships for American artists and scholars in various fields to reside and...
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The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of its 2008-09 Rome Prize, which provides a stipend, room and board, and a work space at its center in Rome to artists, architects and scholars.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of its 2008-09 Rome Prize, which provides a stipend, room and board, and a work space at its center in Rome to artists, architects and scholars. Visual arts...
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