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Dance

Marion Leonard

Marion Leonard

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Robert Strachan

Robert Strachan

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...Dance may be broadly categorized as rhythmically patterned movement of the body and feet in time to music. Dance has been closely linked with the development of many popular music styles and indeed constitutes one of popular music’s primary...

Consumption

Roy Shuker

Roy Shuker

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume I : Media, Industry and Society

Continuum, 2003

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...The term ‘consumption’ refers to the manner in which individuals and social groups engage with cultural forms, in particular the social uses they make of these forms in constructing social/personal identities/life styles. At the heart...

John Trudell

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Popular Music and the Occult

Granholm Kennet

Granholm Kennet

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Music and the occult have interacted in the Western world for a long time, from Pythagoras’ notion of the music of the spheres to the satanic, neopagan and numerological in recent popular music. The focus in this chapter is on the latter...

John Zorn

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Nabaṭī

Lisa Urkevich

Lisa Urkevich

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume X : Genres: Middle East and North Africa

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Nabaṭī is the popular vernacular poetry of the Arabian Peninsula that is used in a variety of music genres, many of which are simply considered ‘sung poetry.’ The diction of nabaṭī poetry conforms to the colloquial speech...

Ngoma

Werner Graebner

Werner Graebner

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XII : Genres: Sub-Saharan Africa

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...In Bantu languages (spoken over a vast area covering Central, Eastern and Southern Africa), including the widely spoken Swahili, ngoma is the common word denoting any kind of ‘drum’ or ‘drums.’ Ngoma also refers to all genres...

Nova Cançó Catalana

Maria Salicrú-Maltas

Maria Salicrú-Maltas

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI : Genres: Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...La nova cançó catalana (New Catalan song) was born in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) in the late 1950s. It was promoted by an intellectual group, whose members were descendants of the bourgeoisie, to fight against the oppression...

Club Culture

Kai Fikentscher

Kai Fikentscher

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume I : Media, Industry and Society

Continuum, 2003

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...The debate concerning the origins and definitions of club culture can be summarized in two competing perspectives, one British, the other North American. From a British perspective, it has been argued that disc jockey (DJ) culture had its...

Naija Pop

Banning Eyre

Banning Eyre

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XII : Genres: Sub-Saharan Africa

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Naija pop is a general term that came into common usage around 2012 to describe the popular music of Nigeria. ‘Naija’ is Lagos slang for Nigeria. Naija pop music, purveyed by a new generation of artists including D’Banj, P-Square, Wizkid...