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* Bluegrass music, a form of American roots music

Variously referred to as roots music, American folk music, or old-time music, this tradition has exerted a strong influence on all forms of American music, including country, blues, and rock and roll.

One of the most powerful and far-reaching cultural aspects of Chicano culture is the indigenous current that strongly roots Chicano culture to the American continent.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

It shares the same roots as the English of the United States because it was based on the immigration of British Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution in the late eighteenth century.

Canada's Conservatives had their roots in the Loyalists-Tories-who left America after the American Revolution.

With the work of the latter philosopher, critical theory transcended its theoretic roots in German idealism, and progressed closer to American pragmatism.

The development of the forward pass in American football shows how the game has evolved from its rugby roots into the distinctive game it is today.

This misreporting of the roots of the massacre caused a widespread public backlash against the North American goth scene.

By the 1950s American conservatives were emphasizing the Judeo-Christian roots of their values.

John Coolidge Adams ( born February 15, 1947 ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism.

Revived in the 1980s by American, Swedish, and British dancers, the Lindy Hop is now represented by dancers and loosely affiliated grass roots organizations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.

However, congregations who strongly identify with their African American roots and tradition would not usually follow the Revised Common Lectionary.

Another strong Methodist movement in Ireland is the Church of the Nazarene which takes its roots from American Methodism as opposed to British whilst still rejecting episcopal polity.

Alongside the musical roots shared with their American counterparts and the calculated confrontationalism of the early Who, the British punks also reflected the influence of glam rock and related bands such as Slade, T. Rex, and Roxy Music.

It strongly criticized the American colonial regime for its menace to the Spanish and Latin American roots of the Puerto Rican culture.

British psychedelic rock, like its American counterpart, had roots in the folk scene.

Finlandia University, an American college with Finnish roots, named their athletic center after Nurmi.

Most of these bands rapidly moved on from recording and performing American standards to writing and recording their own music, often leaving their R & B roots behind.

Perhaps the most definitive usage of the pseudonym for his hometown, in Summer Morning, Summer Night, a collection of short stories and vignettes exclusively about Green Town, Bradbury returns to the signature locale as a look back at the rapidly disappearing small-town world of the American heartland, which was the foundation of his roots.

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

It is the largest church originating on American soil, and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.

Precursors of the form existed by the 1920s, which saw a revival of the medieval woodcut tradition by Belgian Frans Masereel, American Lynd Ward and others.

He starred in the Broadway revival of The Pajama Game, produced by the Roundabout Theater Company, along with Michael McKean and Kelli O ' Hara, at the American Airlines Theatre in 2006.

In the 1950s, " a spiritual and cultural revival washed over American Jewry " in response to the trauma of the Holocaust.

" In Washington, the Joint Chiefs declared that the " complete revival of Germany industry, particularly coal mining " was now of " primary importance " to American security.

This rediscovery helped further the American folk music revival, which had led to the rediscovery of many other bluesmen of Hurt's era.

This left them with no choice but to adopt more youthful formats, though the Standards format ( also known as the Great American Songbook from the series of albums produced by rocker Rod Stewart ) has undergone something of an off-air revival, with artists such as Stewart, Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah putting their own interpretation on the music.

Afterwards, he moved north to Rochester, New York, where he remained until his rediscovery in 1964, spurred by the American folk blues revival.

Alston was president of the American Philosophical Association in 1979 and was widely recognized as one of the core figures in the late twentieth-century revival of the philosophy of religion.

The American folk music revival became a phenomenon in the United States in the 1950s to mid-1960s with the initial success of the Weavers who popularized the genre.

In the 1960s, the American folk music revival in the United States brought a renewed interest in the songs of Joe Hill and other Wobblies, and seminal folk revival figures such as Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie had a pro-Wobbly tone, while some were members of the IWW.

The term Great Awakening is used to refer to several periods of religious revival in American religious history.

In addition, the first American Shakers appreciated the revival tradition, and brought those practices into Shaker worship.

Birch was cast and scheduled to make her American stage debut in the off Broadway revival of Dracula, but was fired for reasons apparently involving her father's interference four days before the show's first performance.

In the latter 1990s, a number of performers and dance groups emerged to create Neo-burlesque, a revival of the classic American burlesque striptease of the early half of the 20th century.

However, starting in 2010 SUV and light truck sales have started an upward trend due to lower gas prices and a revival of the North American economy.

From the early-to-mid-1960s, Baez emerged at the forefront of the American roots revival, where she introduced her audiences to the then-unknown Bob Dylan ( the two became romantically involved in late 1962, remaining together through early 1965 ), and was emulated by artists such as Judy Collins, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt.

Edwards delivered the sermon " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ", a classic of early American literature, during another wave of revival in 1741, following George Whitefield's tour of the Thirteen Colonies.

Charades has been made into a television show in the form of the Canadian Acting Crazy and Party Game, the British Give Us a Clue, the Australian The Celebrity Game, the American Pantomime Quiz, its revival Stump the Stars, Celebrity Charades, Showoffs, and its revival Body Language.

The American folk music revival in New York City in the 1950s was rooted in the resurgent interest in square dancing and folk dancing there in the 1940s, which gave musicians such as Pete Seeger popular exposure.

American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon, in his 1942 book History of American Trotskyism, wrote that " Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.