Hobart has also long been home to a thriving classical, jazz, folk, punk, hip-hop, electro, metal and rock music scene.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Some non-Western countries, such as Japan, have developed a thriving pop music industry, most of which is devoted to Western-style pop, has for several years has produced a greater quantity of music of everywhere except the USA.

As the pub-rock phenomenon expanded, hundreds of pubs in capital cities and major towns began providing regular live music, and a thriving circuit evolved, enabling bands to tour up and down the eastern and southern coast of Australia from North Queensland to South Australia.

With Hawkins, they recorded a few singles in this period and became well known as the best rock group in the thriving Toronto music scene.

Today, the town, with its population of 7, 444, is a thriving centre for music, art, theatre and natural health.

Folksinger Bob Dylan famously attended the University and was a part of its thriving " West Bank " music scene, but did not graduate.

Drogheda has a thriving live music scene at a variety of venues.

Creativity has been the catalyst for the city's " thriving music scene, active nightlife, and bustling street scene " all of which have become important attractions for the German capital.

With a spirit of rebellion Catawbans split with Lincoln County ; a spirited people united and fought a major polio epidemic in the 1940s ; an entrepreneurial spirit built a thriving economy ; a patriotic spirit resulted in the oldest continuing patriotic celebration in the US — the annual Soldier's Reunion in Newton ; an artistic spirit is reflected in our furniture artisans, music, quilting, pottery, etc.

The band quickly found a following in the thriving music scene of Northeast Ohio, particularly alongside contemporaries such as The James Gang.

* Great Neck Plaza Promenade Nights-Several summer nights in Great Neck's thriving Downtown area, the streets are closed off and local restaurants bring all of their seating outdoors for a festival evening of dining, live music, and entertainment.

The town has a thriving playhouse, a multi-purpose arts centre, which stages a hectic programme of theatre, dance, music, cinema, and visual arts exhibitions, and supports a weekly local newspaper — the Northumberland Gazette.

* Stoke has a thriving music scene, including such bands as Deviant UK and a dedicated band rehearsals room.

The theatre ( see below ) is a cinema and also has art exhibitions, as well as a thriving music and comedy scene in the Mezz Bar.

" The rock band The Cramps, who formed in Sacramento, California in 1972 and relocated to New York in 1975 where they became part of the city's thriving punk movement, appropriated the term from the Cash song and described their music as " psychobilly " and " rockabilly voodoo " on flyers advertising their concerts.

It has remained a thriving sub-genre of popular and world music, while continuing to influence new artists, especially those appearing on today's growing roster of indie record labels ( artist examples cited in section 2 of this article ).

In the mid-to late-1970s disco club scene, there was a thriving drug subculture, particularly for drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud dance music and the flashing lights on the dancefloor, such as cocaine ( nicknamed " blow "), amyl nitrite " poppers ", and the "... other quintessential 1970s club drug Quaalude, which suspended motor coordination and turned one ’ s arms and legs to Jell-O.

Romania also has thriving scenes in the fields of pop music, hip hop, heavy metal and rock and roll.

Folk music was still thriving, as recounted in the poem titled " A Canadian Boat Song ".

Illinois has a thriving indie music scene.

Being a university town, Lincoln has had a thriving music scene since the 1950s.

Maryland has a thriving experimental music scene, based around Baltimore.

Despite the game's out-of-print status, a thriving convention scene exists supporting the game.

Although he had begun DJing some years before, it was at this time that he began to develop his skills on the thriving Brighton club scene, known as DJ Quentox, laying the base for Brighton's hip hop scene.

Drogheda has a thriving arts scene, across many sectors.

Although it made little impression internationally, there was a thriving local pop scene in Australia and New Zealand in the 1960s and bands there were quick to pick up on British and American trends.

Today, the original city of Bisbee is known as " Old Bisbee ", and is home to a thriving downtown cultural scene.

Carrboro has a thriving arts scene.

Dietrich, who was bisexual, enjoyed the thriving gay scene of the time and drag balls of 1920s Berlin.

Turkey, during the 1970s and 1980s, also sustained a vibrant folk rock scene, drawing inspirations from diverse ethnic elements of Anatolia, the Balkans, Eurasia and the Black Sea region and thriving in a culture of intense political strife, with musicians in nationalist and Marxist camps.

During that time, San Francisco and New York were the centers for this type of activity ; however, Austin, Texas ( The Third Coast ) also had a thriving scene during the 1980s with a coterie of unique characters.

In the United Kingdom the jungle scene, though underground, is still thriving with club nights specifically tributed to the oldschool jungle sound as well as more modern drum and bass.

* " A picturesque campus, a thriving social scene, and the excitement of Big Ten athletic teams " — Insider ’ s Guide to the Colleges, 2007

The Bay Area's thriving underground rap scene has produced literally hundreds of artists, some of the better known being Andre Nickatina, The Coup, Michael Franti, Paris, Blackalicious, Ya Boy, San Quinn, and Emcee Lynx.

The tour of Kapelye, an American klezmer band, in 1984 also added some energy to the scene, which soon began thriving.

Historically, the district has been influenced heavily by its industrial past with coal mining and textiles ' thriving in the district until their decline in the 1980s, but in common with the national economy the area has seen the decline of these sectors.

It has influenced or given birth to thriving ways of life such as Lucumí, Umbanda and Candomblé.

Phocaea's harbours allowed it to develop a thriving seafaring economy, and to become a great naval power, which greatly influenced its culture.

On the other hand, Jawbox had been influenced by " the tradition of Chicago's thriving early -' 80s scene ", while The Nation of Ulysses are " best remembered for lifting the motor-mouthed revolutionary rhetoric of the MC5 " with the incorporation of " elements of R & B ( as filtered through the MC5 ) and avant jazz " combined with " exciting, volatile live gigs ", and being the inspiration for " a new crop of bands both locally and abroad ".

According to William Ringler's study, Stephen Gosson, the theater business in London had become a thriving enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a thoroughly bad business.

The work force was drastically impacted by the Civil War and the economy was thriving.

Munich enjoys a thriving economy, driven by the information technology, biotechnology, and publishing sectors.

Large quantities of the extract were used by the region's thriving hide industry.

He had a thriving studio in the basement of his parents ' home, in St. Louis, and helped her by using her in advertising jingles.

Around the excavated city of Ebla in northern Syria, an Italian mission led by Prof. Paolo Matthiae discovered evidence in 1975 of a great Semitic empire, spreading from the Red Sea north to Turkey and east to Mesopotamia and thriving from 2500 to 2400 BCE.

Skopje was a thriving trading settlement but fell into decline after being hit by another earthquake at the end of the 11th century.

Zanzibar now has an improved and thriving sea transport network, by which public owned ships and private speed boats serve the ports of Zanzibar, which was renovated by the help of European Union.

Meanwhile, the Layene Sufi order, established by Seydina Mouhammadou Limamou Laye, was thriving among the Lebou in Yoff and in a new village called Cambérène.

The concept of a fish restaurant was introduced by Samuel Isaacs ( born 1856 in Whitechapel, London ; died 1939 in Brighton, Sussex ) who ran a thriving wholesale and retail fish business throughout London and the South of England in the latter part of the 19th century.

This trade was subjected to frequent raids by thriving bands of pirates based in the coastal cities of Western India.

Richmond recovered quickly from the war, and by 1782 was once again a thriving city.

However, Naples is still characterized by political and economic corruption and a thriving black market, and unemployment levels remain very high.

The period also marked the rise of a thriving red light district, populated by well-known local madams such as Josephine " Chicago Joe " Airey, who built a thriving business empire between 1874 and 1893, becoming one of the largest and most influential landowners in Helena.

Xylitol cannot be fermented by these bacteria, so the bacteria have difficulty thriving, thus helping to prevent plaque formation.

They have been prevented from sexual relations by a chastity belt ; but having confirmed that there is no risk of genetic disease in their offspring ( described as the sole valid reason against incest ), Lazarus solemnizes their marriage and later establishes them as the owners and operators of a thriving business.

Melbourne was founded in 1835 by John Batman, also from Van Diemen's Land and quickly grew into a thriving community, although at great human cost to the original inhabitants.

He gave the example of the success story of Amazon in making huge profits each year by developing a full blown open platform that supports a large and thriving community of companies that re-use Amazon ’ s On Demand commerce services.

Ireland has a thriving Thoroughbred breeding industry, stimulated by favourable tax treatment.

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