In 1961 the Canadian philosopher and scholar Marshall McLuhan entitled his pioneering study in the fields of print culture, cultural studies, and media ecology, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.

Martin Helwig's map went on to receive acclaim in a public writing by Caspar Peucer an eminent German scholar at the University of Wittenberg, his map was later also republished in several versions of Abraham Ortelius's pioneering world atlas " Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ".

He was a relative of Pierre Bernard, a pioneering American yogi, scholar, occultist, philosopher, mystic, and businessman.

A. F. A. Woodford, the pioneering Masonic scholar and founder of Quatuor Coronati Lodge, agreed with this dating.

The pioneering scholar of diglossia, Charles A. Ferguson, observed that native speakers proficient in the high prestige dialect will commonly try to avoid using the vernacular dialect with foreigners and may even deny its existence, even though the vernacular is the only socially appropriate one for them themselves to use when speaking to their relatives and friends.

Terry was both a brilliant choir trainer and a pioneering scholar, one of the first musicologists to revive the great works of the English and Continental Renaissance composers.

Explorations of the textual foundations of the JST began in earnest with the pioneering work of the CoC scholar Richard P. Howard and the LDS scholar Robert J. Matthews beginning in the 1960s.

Professor Cheung is an internationally renowned researcher and scholar, well known in particular for his research activities in engineering mechanics and for his pioneering contributions to the methods of finite elements and finite strips for solving engineering problems.

The Chinese still acknowledge the pioneering contribution of Menzies as " the foremost western scholar of Yin-Shang culture and oracle bone inscriptions.

" According to pioneering Angkor scholar Maurice Glaize, Ta Prohm was singled out because it was " one of the most imposing and the one which had best merged with the jungle, but not yet to the point of becoming a part of it ".

* Jesuit scholar Giovanni Baptista Ferrari publishes De Florum Cultura in Rome, a pioneering text in floriculture.

Heinrich Roth ( December 18, 1620 in Augsburg, Germany – June 20, 1668 in Agra ; also known as Henricus Rodius or Henrique Roa ) was a missionary and pioneering Sanskrit scholar.

Heinrich Roth ’ s Sanskrit grammar, that he had completed by 1660 in Latin language under the title Grammaticca linguae Sanscretanae Brachmanum Indiae Orientalis ( the manuscript of which is preserved today at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome ) and that was augmented by preliminary studies for a complete Sanskrit-Latin dictionary, made him a pioneering scholar in modern Sanskrit studies in Europe.

* Paul Phillip Levertoff ( born Feivel Levertoff ), pioneering Hebrew-Christian scholar of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century

According to pioneering Angkor scholar Maurice Glaize, " Given the very particular charm of Banteay Srei — its remarkable state of preservation and the excellence of a near perfect ornamental technique — one should not hesitate, of all the monuments of the Angkor group, to give it the highest priority.

Eberhart ( Edward ) Julius Dietrich Conze ( 1904 – September 24, 1979 ) was an Anglo-German scholar probably best known for his pioneering translations of Buddhist texts.

In contrast to numerous scholarly analyses of Joseph Smith's translations of the Book of Mormon and the Book of Abraham that began to appear in the 19th century, explorations of the textual foundations of the JST began in earnest only in the 1960s, with the pioneering work of the RLDS scholar Richard P. Howard and the LDS scholar Robert J. Matthews.

( He was also a pioneering scholar of the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages.

Benjamin A. Botkin ( 1901 – 1975 ) was a pioneering American folklorist and scholar.

Gruffydd Robert ( before 1532-after 1598 ) was a Welsh humanist scholar who wrote a pioneering Welsh grammar, in Welsh, while in enforced exile with his colleague and fellow-writer Morys Clynnog in Milan in 1567.

Rémy Julienne is a well known pioneering automotive stunt performer and coordinator.

Niger born Tuareg Blues artists include the pioneering guitarist Abdallah ag Oumbadougou from Agadez and his band Takrist n ' Akal, Group Bombino also from Agadez, Moussa ag Keyna's group Toumast, and the performer Mouma Bob.

* George Tutunjian – ( died 2006 ) pioneering Armenian revolutionary songs performer.

It was the pioneering work of a performer in a dramatic ensemble, the ethnochoreologist Vasyl Verkhovynets, in the early 20th century, that enable the dance to develop into its current format.

Druyan was responsible for the selection of the music on the Voyager Golden Record for the pioneering exploratory missions of the Solar System — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

In the late 1980s, influential Jamaican rapper Daddy Freddy's pioneering efforts in fusing ragga with hip hop music earned him international acclaim while helping to publicize and popularize ragga.

He began his career in 1978 as a member of the pioneering electronic music group Yellow Magic Orchestra ( YMO ), where he played keyboards and was an occasional vocalist.

Like the pioneering Bronx crews of DJs Kool Herc, Afrika Bambataa and Grandmaster Flash, the soundsystems provided party music for public spaces, often in the economically deprived council estates from which some of their members originated.

Originally developed as the " Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer " by Dartmouth College Professor Jon Appleton, in association with NED co-founders Cameron W. Jones and Sydney A. Alonso, the Synclavier would become the pioneering prototype hardware and software system for all digital non-linear synthesis, polyphonic sampling, magnetic ( hard-disk ) recording and sequencing systems technology that is commonplace in all music and sound effects / design today.

Allmusic cites Motown as the pioneering label of pop-soul, a style of soul music with raw vocals, but polished production and toned-down subject matter intended for pop radio and crossover success.

For some time there had been much interest in producing innovative music and sounds to go with the pioneering programming of the era, in particular the dramatic output of the BBC Third Programme.

( It is interesting, in this regard, to note that Schnabel was a close friend of Arnold Schoenberg, his Austrian-American compatriot, who was famous as a pioneering composer of atonal and twelve-tone music.

Later, his name would come to personify pioneering innovations in atonality ( although Schoenberg himself detested the term " atonality " as inaccurate in describing his intentions ) that would become the most polemical feature of 20th-century art music.

Gold coast musician Mark Boulle is pioneering the way with his original Indie Folk music.

His association with Amnesty continued throughout the 1980s and beyond and he was a pioneering participant in many of Amnesty's Human Rights Concerts – a series of music events and tours staged by the US Section of Amnesty International between 1986 and 1998.

( The title is a reference to Arnold Schoenberg's 1899 work " Verklärte Nacht " that presaged his pioneering work on atonal music ; Schoenberg was an Austrian Jew exiled by the Nazis ).

The long-running British Rock music show " The Old Grey Whistle Test " produced a number of pioneering videos made especially for the program throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.

American alternative punk rock group Devo created many self-produced music videos, which were included in the pioneering compilation " The Truth About Devolution ", directed by Chuck Statler.

Formed in 1987, they are one of the most prominent acts signed to Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music and through which all Autechre albums have been released.

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden ( October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932 ), a naturalized American citizen born in Quebec, Canada, was an inventor who performed pioneering experiments in radio, including early — and possibly the first — radio transmissions of voice and music.

After seeing Norman perform, British festival promoter Tony Tew, said, " The pioneering music of Larry Norman has crossed the water, and we've learnt that it really is possible to be a Christian and a rock ' n ' roll singer.

His contribution in pioneering soul music led to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and popularized the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.

From the outset the orchestra has been known for pioneering avant garde music, and it continues to do so, at the Proms, in concerts at the Barbican Centre, and in studio concerts from its base at BBC Maida Vale studios.

The album, produced by Chris Christian, was successful, and Peek became a pioneering artist in the emerging Christian popular music genre.

Although none of these were ever particularly identified as such, the music that they created is influenced by, and follows the same musical format as, many of the pioneering power trios.

Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music.

Musically, Soul Shakedown is more ska than reggae, the style of music the Wailers would eventually make world-famous ; the pioneering style of the music helped move ska and rocksteady towards reggae.

* May 26 – Werner Meyer-Eppler, Fritz Enkel, Herbert Eimert, and Robert Beyer open a pioneering electronic music studio at the Cologne studios of the NWDR ( Morawska-Büngeler 1988, 11 – 12 ).