"If you can get beyond [any mental blocks about violence and necrophilia], it's the easiest day of work ever," says Odette Delacroix, a mainstream performer and custom video producer who has performed for several death fetish studios.
It's true, just like in 2000 and again in 2009, and really, in any year in which Eminem has been a mainstream performer.
They rap about love "and call it hip-hop when it isn't," said Wang Liang, the D.J. Jay Chou, a popular pop singer turned rapper from Taiwan who has been featured in advertisements for Pepsi, Panasonic and China Mobile, is the archetype of a mainstream performer here.
Like Parlan, Shepp became a more mainstream performer, mostly playing hard bop, although he occasionally return to his free jazz sound.
Mr. Seinfeld has always been a more cautious, firmly mainstream performer.
His daughter Chance ("12 going on 26") lives with him during the week, and although he still flies around the world DJing, he's also, since the BBC2 series Maestro, in which he learned to conduct an orchestra, reinvented himself as a mainstream television performer, the latest incarnation of which can be seen in a new BBC2 series, Goldie's Band: By Royal Appointment.
They know that a lot of the mainstream performers are not writing their songs, so I think that, in a way, does make the underground stuff a little more legitimate.
Yet there's a happy medium of mainstream performers whose freest strains of creation seem made for the media's frame — artists who capture what is often misnamed the "public imagination" but is, in fact, an intersection of millions of private imaginations.
But they focus on songs by mainstream performers like Prince, who has a deal with Verizon.
After two weeks of performances by Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philip Glass, the Netherlands Dance Theater, the Royal Court Theater and 30 other mainstream performers, the city's gays have taken over with a three-week Mardi Gras, a collection of 130 diverse events including body piercing and concerts by performers in drag.
Using modern animation techniques, visitors can take a virtual tour around the Cafe Royal, a popular Second Avenue haunt where Yiddish artists like Boris Thomashefsky mingled with mainstream performers like Charlie Chaplin.
