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John Trudell

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Dance

Marion Leonard

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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...

John Zorn

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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...

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...

Isabel Parra

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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....

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...

Neofolklore (Bolivia)

Mauricio Sánchez-Patzy

Mauricio Sánchez-Patzy

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IX : Genres: Caribbean and Latin America

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...In Bolivia, the term neofolklore refers to a group of musical styles that emerged in the late 1960s among urban middle-class musicians. Neofolklore is characterized by the renewal of Bolivian traditional music according to the new aesthetic...

Sardegna (Sardinia)

Stefano Pogelli

Stefano Pogelli

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VII : Locations: Europe

The Continuum International, 2016

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...Population: 1,631,880 (2003) Sardegna (Sardinia), the largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicilia (Sicily), lies at a distance of 75 miles (120 km) from Toscana (Tuscany). The landscape is rocky...