20 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WHAT'S HAPPENING WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2004 MOVIE LISTINGS LIBERTY HALL 644 Massachusetts, 785-749-1912 Fahrenheit 9/11 (R): 4:15 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Coffee and Cigarettes (R): 4:30 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:30 p.m. SOUTH WIND 12 3433 Iowa Street, Lawrence, 785-832-0880 The Notebook (PG-13): 12:35 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 10:05 p.m. The Terminal (PG-13): 12:40 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 7:05 p.m., 9:55 p.m. ■ Spider-Man 2 (PG-13): 12:55 p.m., 2 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:50 p.m., 10:15 p.m. King Arthur (PG-13): 12:20 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 10:10 p.m. **Anchorman:** The Legend of Ron Burgundy (PG-13): 12:05 p.m., 2:20 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 9:50 p.m. A Cinderella Story (PG): 12:25 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 4:55 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:35 p.m. ■ I, Robot (PG-13): noon, 12:50 p.m., 2:35 p.m., 4 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 10 p.m., 10:25 p.m. Bourne Supremacy (PG-13): 12 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4:20 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:05 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 9:45 p.m., 10:20 p.m. Catwoman (PG-13): 12:15 p.m., 2:40 'Mento Madness' captures 1950s Jamaican music style MUSIC Now that the summer heat is at its most oppressive, and the rising cacophony of locusts in the yard threatens the evening's peace, V2 Records comes to the rescue with a compilation called Mento Madness: Motta's Jamaican Mento 1951-56. Mento is Jamaica's earliest original musical style. Naturally then, it combines insidious rhythms with blithe vocals, wild shout-and-chant melodies and makeshift instruments, such as the bamboo saxophone and the rumba box. It is a blend of African-European music and a forbearer to ska and reggae, sharing its heyday with Trinidadian calypso way back in the 1950s. In fact, the names calypso and mento have been interchangeable since record companies picked the former and stuck with it indiscriminately. The success of Harry Belafonte and his lyrics, "Daylight come and me want to go home," ensured calypso a permanent niche in the industry. Full title: Mento Madness: Motta's Jamaican Mento 1951-1956 Artist: Various Label: V2 Records Grade: B 'MENTO MADNESS' whereas mento was, as it is still, esoteric. The music on this album is obviously provincial, with songs like "Swine Lane Gal" and "Country Gal." One back-up singer crows like a rooster in "Me Dog Can't Bark." Of course, this folkiness is one of the winning qualities and is most evident in the vocals, where it most belongs. But there is nothing unsophisticated about the stride piano and bebop trumpet in the several songs of Dan Williams and His Orchestra and Lord Fly. Jamaican artists have always cherished regal honorifics from Lord Composer to King Tubby. Happily, the tenor banjo enjoys a few feature tunes, thanks to Boysie Grant & Reynolds Calypso Clippers. The banjo is used variously for major melodies, bluesy riffs and Dixieland-style chordal accompaniment. The greatest of the banjo tunes is the double-entendre laden "Solas Market," where alternating banjo and hand-drum solos reveal the source of mento music — the dance hall. Much of mento's importance lies in its patriarchal status to later, and more popular, Jamaican styles. There is zero production value in these raw recordings. The songs featured on the album were culled from the 1951-56 archives of Stanley Motta, an appliance salesman and enthusiast who pioneered Jamaican music by recording local musicians on a portable, mono tape-recorder. As with all true folk music, mento is an elemental form that seems to have sprung up like a native grass which, in the case of Jamaican, is great news. Such forms of music refuse to be forgotten, and Mento Madness is proof. 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