Oct 15th, 2008 · What do Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, and John Edwards have in common? They've all been criticized for the way they speak. Linguist Geoff Nunberg has some thoughts about candidates and regional cadence.
Oct 9th, 2008 · Poet Nikki Giovanni says her new book, Hip Hop Speaks To Children, aims to teach children poetry, history and culture through cadence. Poems by such greats as Langston Hughes are set to blues, jazz or gospel music.
Feb 23rd, 2007 · The Sea and Cake crafts jazzy, ambitious, agreeable, vaguely indefinable pop-rock music that sticks mostly to jazz-tinged mellow moods. On the surprisingly hard-nosed "Crossing Line," Sam Prekop's wispy vocal cadences and phrasing sound comfortably expressive.
Sep 10th, 1999 · In this week's installment of Lost and Found Sound, "Quest for Sound" Curator Jay Allison introduces David Greenberger. Greenberger made a strange tape recording back in 1981 of a man who sang 129 songs in 45-minutes. The singer was a gentleman named Jack Murdurian, who renders popular music items one after another in the same careless, toneless cadences. The recording and Jack's memory are both "lost and found."