Contemporary queer theory, incorporating many ideas from social constructionism, tends to look at sexuality as something that has meaning only within a given historical framework.

Contemporary Paganism, Modern Paganism, or Neopaganism, refers to a variety of modern religious movements, particularly those influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe.

Contemporary Paganism has been characterized as " a synthesis of historical inspiration and present-day creativity ", in this manner drawing influences from pre-Christian, folkloric and ethnographic sources in order to fashion new religious movements.

Contemporary oral history involves recording or transcribing eyewitness accounts of historical events.

Contemporary replicas can range from cheap factory produced look-alikes to exact recreations of individual artifacts, including an approximation of the historical production methods.

Contemporary usage of the designation is generally confined to situations in which the term is considered relevant in an historical context, as now most people of mixed white and black ancestry rarely choose to self-identify as mulatto.

Contemporary users of tipis include historical reenactors, back-to-the-land devotees, and Native American families attending powwows or encampments who wish to preserve and pass on a part of their heritage and tradition.

Contemporary Talmud scholars view these as comments on the relationship between Judaism and Christians or other sectarians, rather than comments on the historical Jesus.

Contemporary anarchists use a wide variety of tools of social analysis, historical materialism included.

Clockwise around the Ninth of July Square are the neoclassical Cathedral, the French style Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cabildo ( in former times, the city's town hall, nowadays a historical museum ) and the neoclassical Museum of High Mountain Archeology, which houses artifacts from the Inca civilization, including the magnifically preserved mummies of three Inca children.

Contemporary Armenian authors referred to the historical area of Gardman as Northern Artsakh.

Contemporary author Karl-Heinz Janßen wrote on February 27, 1987 about Klee, " Contemporary historical research ignores this subject medical crimes during the Nazi period ; [...] if it were not for the free-lance journalist, Ernst Klee, who went to the effort of reading thousands of case files and rummaging through archives of institutions, almost nothing would be known today about one of the most horrible atrocities of this century.

Contemporary presentation by means of modern exhibition technology has been possible without destruction of the historical structures in the building.

Contemporary archaeologists have given up the attempt to find a historical reality behind the Patriarchs as individuals, and it is now generally accepted that " it is not possible to demonstrate the historical existence of the figures in Genesis.

Noted graduates and associates of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and the Department of Cultural Studies include: Paul Gilroy ( LSE ) theorist of culture and race, Angela McRobbie ( Goldsmiths ) theorist of consumption, femininity and popular culture, Celia Lurie ( Goldsmiths ) feminist theory and consumption, Jackie Stacey ( University of Manchester, film, cancer culture and science in culture ', Sarah Franklin ( LSE ) science as culture, Debbie Epstein ( University of Cardiff education, childhood and youth studies, sexuality and popular culture, Peter Redman ( The Open University ) masculinities, psychoanalytic theor, Mary Jane Kehily ( The Open University ) childhood and youth studies, Joyce Canaan ( City University, Birmingham ) cultures of higher education, Anoop Nayak ( Newcastle University ) geographies of race, Deborah Lynn Steinberg ( Warwick University ) science cultures, sexuality and popular culture, Hilary Pilkington ( Warwick University ) Russia and youth subcultures, Sue Wright ( Danish Pedagogic University ) cultures of higher education, Hazel Carby ( Yale ) race and literature, David Parker ( Nottingham University ), Mica Nava ( University of East London ) media studies, Chris Griffin ( Bath University ) girls and youth cultures, and Adrian Kear ( Aberystwith University ) performance studies and psychoanalysis, Kevin J. Brehony ( Roehampton University ) historical studies of educational ideologies ..

Contemporary readers must have found some degree of usefulness in this summary drawn from historical records.

Presently located outside the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, it is a key work in Melbourne's public art collection, and of considerable historical importance to the city.

Easy listening and Adult Contemporary are related formats that play largely down-tempo pop music of various styles.

The difference is mostly in the era and styles covered -- Easy Listening is mostly older music done in the style of standards from the early 20th century ( typical artists include Johnny Mathis and Frank Sinatra ) combined with Big Band music and more modern performers in the same style such as Céline Dion and Josh Groban, while Adult Contemporary focuses more on newer pop music from the 1970s on.

Contemporary quilters use a wide range of quilting designs and styles, from ancient and ethnic to post-modern futuristic patterns.

Contemporary music ensembles are helping to introduce classic silent films to a wider audience through a broad range of musical styles and approaches.

* Contemporary charters in Latin used a number of additional styles for the Danish king Cnut ( Canute the Great, with Norway as his third realm ; 23 April 1016-12 November 1035 in Britain ) having rex Anglorum in the core plus various other titles, including rex Anglorum totiusque Brittannice orbis gubernator et rector i. e. ' king of the Angli and of all Britain governor and rector ' ( the last two in the generic sense ' ruler ')

Contemporary fusions of Indigenous and Western styles ( exemplified in the works of Yothu Yindi, Christine Anu and Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu ) mark distinctly Australian contributions to world music.

Contemporary Indigenous Australian music has covered numerous styles, including rock and roll, country, hip hop, and reggae.

Religious music often changes to fit the times ; Contemporary Christian music, for example, uses idioms from various secular popular music styles but with religious lyrics.

Within contemporary forms of music ( sometimes referred to as Contemporary Commercial Music ), singers are classified by the style of music they sing, such as jazz, pop, blues, soul, country, folk, and rock styles.

Contemporary convertibles are known and marketed under several different terms due to the convergence of body styles over the years.

Contemporary Dutch popular music ( Nederpop ) is heavily influenced by music styles that emerged in the 1950s, in the United Kingdom and United States.

Contemporary batik, while owing much to the past, is markedly different from the more traditional and formal styles.

A reflection of its versatility is that BeauSoleil has also earned a Grammy nomination in the Contemporary Folk category, for the 1999 album Cajunization, with songs that effortlessly span Cajun, Calypso, French ballad, blues and other musical styles.

Contemporary Malagasy musical styles such as the salegy or tsapika have evolved from traditional styles modernized by the incorporation of electric guitar, bass, drums and synthesizer.

Contemporary music comprises modern-day compositions that have their roots in traditional musical styles and have been created for entertainment purposes, typically with the intent of eventual mass dissemination via cassette, compact disc, radio or internet.

Contemporary ' dizi ' styles or schools based on the professional conservatory repertory are divided into two: Northern and Southern, each style having different preferences in dizi and playing techniques, with different methods for embellishment and ornamentation of the melody.

Contemporary musical styles such as rock and roll, country, rap and reggae have all featured a variety of notable Indigenous Australian performers.

Contemporary Indigenous music continues the earlier traditions and also represents a fusion with contemporary mainstream styles of music, such as rock and country music.

* In 1979, The Kitchen began its Contemporary Music Series with goal of highlighting " connections between different musical genres and styles of composition.

Contemporary Macedonian artists include Aleksandar Stankovski, Zhaneta Vangeli, Maja Dzhartovska, and Gordana Apostolovska who all use various styles.

Contemporary bush ballads may employ finger picking and strumming rock styles as in Lee Kernaghan's later version of Leave Him in the Longyard, or in Keith Urban reworking of the Slim Dusty / Joy McKean classic " Lights on the Hill ".

The Contemporary A Cappella Society ( of America ), or CASA, is a 501 ( c )( 3 ) charitable organization dedicated to fostering and promoting a cappella music of all styles around the world.

Contemporary Kantha is applied to a wider range of garments such as sarees, dupatta, shirts for men and women, bedding and other furnishing fabrics, mostly using cotton and silk.

In all his miscalculations, Stravinsky made the fatal historical blunder of presuming that he could transform other composers' inspirations -- representing many peoples, time periods and styles -- into his own music by warping the harmony, melody, or form, to verify his own experiments.

The 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, a comedy based around a fictional 1970s rock band, was filmed in the style of a documentary and includes such details as fake album covers and historical videos done in the styles of the late 1960s and 1970s.

The work of the Kelmscott Press is characterized by its obsession with historical styles.

In the mid-nineteenth century there arose a style known as historicism, which marked a formal imitation of historical styles and / or artists.

The mounting criticism of the historical styles gained substantial cultural credibility after World War I, a disaster widely seen as a failure of the old world order of imperial leadership of Europe.

* Traditional or historical arts and contemporary styles of folk wrestling vs. modern hybrid martial arts.

The direct execution of source code on historical computing platforms in an era of tiny disks, minuscule RAM and 300 baud serial connections led to a historical coding style that was terse, dense and expert friendly, even as more current MUMPS coding styles produce more readable code.

In the intermediate sense, it includes all relevant cultures and a range of musical forms, styles, genres and traditions, but tends to be confined to the humanities-a combination of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and the humanities of systematic musicology ( philosophy, theoretical sociology, aesthetics ).

For example, the peculiar development of the works by modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg ( here an " ontogeny ") is generalized in many histories into a " phylogeny " – a historical development (" evolution ") of Western Music toward atonal styles of which Schoenberg is a representative.

The palaeographer must know, first, the language of the text ( that is, a 21st-century English or French speaker must become expert in the relevant earlier forms of these languages ); and second, the historical usages of various styles of handwriting, common writing customs, and scribal / notarial abbreviations.

In addition to aficionados, reproductions of historical clay styles are used by some re-enactors.

Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong focus on human and romantic relationships and emotions.

Stylistically, Jefferson was a proponent of the Greek and Roman styles, which he believed to be most representative of American democracy by historical association.

Tolkien, however, is not simply skimming historical sources for effect: linguistic styles, especially the relationship between the modern and ancient, has been seen to be one of the major themes explored by the story.

Vintage dance is the authentic recreation of historical dance styles.

; Acting: There is enormous historical and cultural variation in performance styles in the cinema.

It came late to the Carnegie campus because of the hiatus in building activity and a general reluctance among all institutions of higher education to abandon historical styles.

For this reason, some historical Slavic monarchs, such as Russian Emperors, included the title " autocrat " as part of their official styles, distinguishing them from the constitutional monarchs elsewhere in Europe.

It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers ' techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods.

Its historical architecture has a style more Mediterranean than Russian, having been heavily influenced by French and Italian styles.

The various generic and formal historical styles of writing are called hands, whilst an individual personal style of penmanship is referred to as handwriting.

The cartoon TV series Archer deliberately mixes technologies, clothing styles and historical backdrops of different decades.

" Grove observes that his wide knowledge of the history of European music, and his editorial work on Rameau, Scarlatti and Beethoven, gave him " particular authority in teaching historical styles ".

While there are several styles of " modern ninjutsu ," the historical lineage of these styles is disputed.