Email Author Carol Cooper

1999 Stories by Carol Cooper

• 'Alternative ' Soul: Progress in Design?

  published September 21, 1999

  Let's face it. Contemporary r&b has a design problem. Yes Virginia, a mere century or so of incessant use has exhausted core r&b design... More >>

• Erotic City

  published July 6, 1999

  Samuel R. Delany never ceases to surprise his readers, mainly because he writes astonishingly well about almost anything. Convinced that both... More >>

• Diddily-Dee

  published July 6, 1999

  The "heavy" in Dwight "Heavy D" Myers's stage moniker has always stood for more than the rapper's size, so why shouldn't it be the title of his... More >>

• Renaissance Man

  published February 23, 1999

  Milton Nascimento once described to me something he'd witnessed while performing in a soccer stadium in his native Brazil. He'd started singing... More >>

• Beyond Salsa

  published February 16, 1999

  Tite Curet Alonso, the legendary 72-year-old Puerto Rican composer, musicologist, and journalist, spent four months helping Paul Simon research... More >>