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It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.
" Nevertheless, no alternative to " American " is common.
Edzard Ernst has said that in Austria and Germany complementary and alternative medicine is mainly in the hands of physicians, while some estimates suggest that at least half of American alternative practitioners are physicians.
American philosopher Michael Martin argues that it is not necessarily true that objective moral truths must entail the existence of God, suggesting that there could be alternative explanations: he argues that naturalism may be an acceptable explanation and, even if a supernatural explanation is necessary, it does not have to be God ( polytheism is a viable alternative ).
The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.
Also in the 2000s, pop punk outfit Green Day abandoned the pop punk scene and turned to more alternative and progressive rock influences and produced two Grammy-winning concept albums, namely, 2004's American Idiot and 2009's 21st Century Breakdown.
An alternative ranking system often used in the American Mid-West proceeds as B level, A level, AA level, Honor level, and Evans Scholar.
In a recent interview with American Songwriter Chris Hillman explained that, “ The greatest legacy of the Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram is we were the alternative country band.
* Incubus ( band ), an American alternative rock band from California
After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Falwell said on Pat Robertson's The 700 Club, " I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America.
* 30 Seconds to Mars, an American alternative rock band
* Gary Null, American radio host and author on alternative medicine
" As a result of the large-scale activities surrounding the Harmonic Convergence in 1987, the American mass-media further popularised the term as a label for the alternative spiritual subculture, including practices such as meditation, channeling, crystal healing, astral projection, psychic experience, holistic health, simple living, and environmentalism ; or belief in phenomena such as Earth mysteries, ancient astronauts, extraterrestrial life, unidentified flying objects, crop circles, and reincarnation.
The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986.
The Presidents of the United States of America, commonly referred to as Pot USA or " PUSA " or The Presidents, are a twice Grammy-nominated American alternative rock band.
In 2005, the American indie / alternative rock band The Bravery released a video for their debut single, " An Honest Mistake ," which features the band performing the song in the middle of a Rube Goldberg machine.
Category: American alternative metal musical groups
They Might Be Giants ( sometimes abbreviated as TMBG ) is an American alternative band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.
The US edition, once again by A & E Home Video, includes the first North American release of an alternative edit of " Arrival " ( in high definition ), as well as " The Alternate Version of ' The Chimes of Big Ben '" from the earlier DVD / VHS releases ( in standard definition due to the degraded source material ) and assorted documentaries and behind-the-scenes footage.
Today, it is Tibetan Buddhism and various forms of Hinduism that show the strongest Tantric influence, as well as the international postural yoga movement and most forms of American alternative spirituality grouped under the New Age rubric.
The Replacements were an American punk rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979, and are considered pioneers of alternative rock.
* The Probability Broach ( 1980 ), by L. Neil Smith, presents both utopian and dystopian views of present day North America, through alternative outcomes of the American War for Independence.

American and bands
They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk rock community, and were one of the first American hardcore bands to make a significant impact in the United Kingdom.
By 1968, the number of dance clubs started to decline ; most American clubs either closed or were transformed into clubs featuring live bands.
The cellist Natalie Haas points out that in the US, you can find "... old photographs, and even old recordings, of American string bands with cello.
Fashioning themselves as rowdy Irish-American hooligans ( although Lethal is Latvian American ), they toured with various rap and alternative-rock bands after their breakthrough.
Juliana Hatfield ( born July 27, 1967 in Wiscasset, Maine, United States ), is an American guitarist / singer-songwriter and author from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies and Some Girls.
A small orchestra with fifteen to thirty members ( violins, violas, cellos, double basses, and several woodwind or brass instruments ) is called a chamber orchestra In the American education system, sitting groups are known as wind ensembles or concert bands ( to differentiate from marching bands ).
Traditional Native American ceremonies are still practiced by many tribes and bands, and the older theological belief systems are still held by many of the " traditional " people.
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.
One of the most influential American post-punk bands was Boston's Mission of Burma, who brought abrupt rhythmic shifts derived from hardcore into a highly experimental musical context.
In the early 1980s, bands from the American southwest and California such as JFA, Agent Orange, and The Faction helped create a rhythmically distinctive style of hardcore known as skate punk.
Milwaukee's Violent Femmes jumpstarted the American folk punk scene, while The Pogues did the same on the other side of the Atlantic, influencing many Celtic punk bands.
Green Day and Dookies enormous sales paved the way for a host of bankable North American pop punk bands in the following decade.
Other new North American pop punk bands, though often critically dismissed, also achieved major sales in the first decade of the 2000s.
However, the largest strand was a series of bands that emerged from 1966 from the British blues scene, but influenced by folk, jazz and psychedelia, including Pink Floyd, Traffic, Soft Machine, Cream, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( led by an American, but initially produced and managed in Britain by Chas Chandler of The Animals ).
American pop-oriented bands that followed in this vein included the Electric Prunes, the Blues Magoos and the Strawberry Alarm Clock.
American bands whose loud, repetitive psychedelic rock emerged as early heavy metal included Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes and Steppenwolf.
In the 1930s jazz, and particularly swing, both in urban based dance bands and blues-influenced country swing, was among the first music to present African American sounds for a predominantly white audience.
Many of these bands enjoyed national success in the UK, but found it difficult to break into the American market.
The British R & B bands produced music which was very different in tone from that of African American artists, often with more emphasis on guitars and sometimes with greater energy.
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.
Ragtime originated in African American music in the late 19th century, descending from the jigs and march music played by black bands.
Some of those youths spent that income on new fashions popularized by American soul groups, British R & B bands, certain movie actors, and Carnaby Street clothing merchants.
American skinheads created a link between their subculture and hardcore punk music, with bands such as Warzone, Agnostic Front, and Cro-Mags.

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