More song and dance than award giving

New York

TO belt, to dance, to rap or to mourn? The 58th annual Grammy Awards cycled through those modes on Monday night in its live broadcast from the Staples Center.

It is an awards show that has all but eliminated giving awards. Only eight competitive Grammys were announced on the three-and-half hour show; the other 75 awards were presented in an earlier webcast. The choices, slipped between nearly two dozen performances, continued the longtime stodginess of the Recording Academy, which presents the awards.