Contemporary Chinese art ( 中国当代艺术, Zhongguo Dangdai Yishu ) often referred to as Chinese avant-garde art, continued to develop since the 1980s as an outgrowth of modern art developments post-Cultural Revolution.

Contemporary & avant-garde music, where different sounds are sought, will often use friction mallets ( producing squeals & harmonics ), bass bows ( producing long tones and high overtones ), and various striking implements ( wood / plastic / metal ) to produce the desired tones.

Contemporary Tibetan art includes modern thangka ( religious scroll paintings ) that resemble ancient thangka, as well as radical, avant-garde, works.

He composed some Contemporary Classical music and avant-garde tunes for this ensemble, and held concerts in some places and conducted by himself.

Always active in United States with avant-garde music artists, he has been awarded a CAPS Grant in multi-media, a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2004, a New York State Council on the Arts commission grant for flutist Barbara Held, a National Endowment for the Arts grant for collaborative work with Blondell Cummings and Senga Nengdi, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in performance / emerging forms.

Many Russian composers that were interested in avant-garde music became members of the Association for Contemporary Music which was headed by Roslavets.

Contemporary Greek literature is represented by many writers, poets and novelists: Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Angelos Sikelianos, Emmanuel Rhoides, Kostis Palamas, Penelope Delta, Yannis Ritsos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Andreas Embeirikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, Demetrius Vikelas, while George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Contemporary poets associated with Irish modernism include those associated with New Writers Press and The Beau magazine ; these include Trevor Joyce, Michael Smith, Geoffrey Squires, Randolph Healy, Billy Mills, Catherine Walsh, and Maurice Scully.

Increased globalisation has led to a younger generation of poets seeking influences and precursors as varied as post-war Polish poets and Contemporary Americans.

Consequently, Juliette Adam dedicated her anthology Poètes grecs contemporains (" Contemporary Greek poets "), published in 1881, to him, and he published in her Nouvelle Revue.

Concerning the New York School poets, critics argued that their work was a reaction to the Confessionalist movement in Contemporary Poetry.

Contemporary Indonesian poets include among others, Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, Rendra, Taufiq Ismail, Afrizal Malna, Binhad Nurrohmat, Joko Pinurbo, Sapardi Djoko Damono.

The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse is a poetry anthology first published in 1950, and edited by Kenneth Allott, generally restricted to British poets ( T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath and some Irish poets were included ).

The four distinguished satirical poets used this pseudonym as a collective pen name to publish aphorisms, fables, epigrams, satiric, humorous and nonsense verses in the 1850s – 1860s, most notably in the literary magazine " Sovremennik " ( The Contemporary ).

Goldsworthy has been described in A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry as " one of the most skilled and satisfying poets in Australia ".

Contemporary set theorists also study axioms that are not compatible with the axiom of choice, such as the axiom of determinacy.

Increased interest in modern a cappella ( particularly collegiate a cappella ) can be seen in the growth of awards such as the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards ( overseen by the Contemporary A Cappella Society ) and competitions such as the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella for college groups and the Harmony Sweepstakes for all groups.

Contemporary scholars and patriots such as Noah Webster, John Trumbull, and Joel Barlow were instrumental in securing the passage of these statutes.

Contemporary colloquial Cantonese has distinct loanwords from English, such as 卡通 " cartoon ", 基佬 " gay people ", 的士 " taxi ", and 巴士 " bus ".

Contemporary critics such as Webbe and Puttenham praised his poetic ability, and his verses were published in several poetry miscellanies.

Contemporary analysis distinguishes tangible, physical, or nonhuman capital goods from other forms of capital such as human capital.

Contemporary filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Girish Kasaravalli, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, and Juraj Jakubisko have cited Fellini's influence on their work.

Contemporary examples of modern German-style board games referred to as German-style, such as Acquire, appeared in the 1960s.

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

Contemporary hypnotism makes use of a wide variety of different forms of suggestion including: direct verbal suggestions, " indirect " verbal suggestions such as requests or insinuations, metaphors and other rhetorical figures of speech, and non-verbal suggestion in the form of mental imagery, voice tonality, and physical manipulation.

Contemporary literary theory, however, denies the attribution of such fixed meanings.

Contemporary developments in logic and the foundations of mathematics, especially Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead's monumental Principia Mathematica, impressed the more mathematically minded logical positivists such as Hans Hahn and Rudolf Carnap.

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.

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

Contemporary Paganism, or Neopaganism, includes reconstructed religions such as the Cultus Deorum Romanorum, Hellenic polytheism, Slavic neopaganism ( i. e. Slavianstvo, including Rodnovery ), Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism, or Germanic religious reconstructionism, as well as modern eclectic traditions such as Discordianism, Wicca and its many offshoots.

Contemporary charity is regarded as a continuation of the Biblical Maaser Ani, or poor-tithe, as well as Biblical practices, such as permitting the poor to glean the corners of a field and harvest during the Shmita ( Sabbatical year ).

Contemporary debates have centered on issues such as secularization, civil religion, and the cohesiveness of religion in the context of globalization and multiculturalism.

Contemporary ideas from systems theory have grown with diversified areas, exemplified by the work of biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, ecological systems with Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum and Fritjof Capra, organizational theory and management with individuals such as Peter Senge, interdisciplinary study with areas like Human Resource Development from the work of Richard A. Swanson, and insights from educators such as Debora Hammond and Alfonso Montuori.

Contemporary books are more likely to be set with state-of-the-art seriffed " text romans " or " book romans " with design values echoing present-day design arts, which are closely based on traditional models such as those of Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo ( a punchcutter who created the model for Aldine typefaces ), and Claude Garamond.

Contemporary a cappella includes many vocal groups and bands who add vocal percussion or beatboxing to create a pop / rock sound, in some cases very similar to bands with instruments.

Biographer Philip Heselton suggested that through the nudist scene Gardner may have also met Dion Byngham ( 1896 – 1990 ), a senior member of the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry who propounded a Contemporary Pagan religion known as Dionysianism.

This film was financed by Archibald MacLeish, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Lillian Hellman, Luise Rainer, Dudley Nichols, Franchot Tone and other Hollywood movie stars, moguls, and writers who composed a group known as the Contemporary Historians.

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

Adorno resumed his teaching duties at the university soon after his arrival, with seminars on " Kant ’ s Transcendental Dialectic ," aesthetics, Hegel, “ Contemporary Problems in the Theory of Knowledge ” and “ The Concept of Knowledge .” Adorno ’ s surprise at his students ' passionate interest in intellectual matters did not, however, blind him to continuing problems within Germany: The literary climate was dominated by writers who had remained in Germany during Hitler's rule, the government re-employed people who had been active in the Nazi apparatus and people were generally loath to own up to their own collaboration or the guilt they thus incurred.

According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘ someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country ’.

These include Alonzo King and his company, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet ; Complexions Contemporary Ballet, under the direction of Dwight Rhoden ; Nacho Duato's Compañia Nacional de Danza ; William Forsythe, who has worked extensively with the Frankfurt Ballet and today runs The Forsythe Company ; and Jiří Kylián, currently the artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater.

Contemporary Egyptian music traces its beginnings to the creative work of luminaries such as Abdu-l Hamuli, Almaz, Sayed Mikkawi, and Mahmud Osman, who were all patronized by Khedive Ismail and who influenced the later work of Sayed Darwish, Umm Kulthum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Abdel Halim Hafez and other Egyptian music giants.

Contemporary songs, poems, and public declarations looked for a king who was absolute " master ," unblemished " Christian ," and benevolent provider (" baker ").

Tate Liverpool, in Liverpool has the same purpose as Tate Modern but on a smaller scale, and Tate St Ives displays Modern and Contemporary Art by artists who have connections with the area.

In the song Lennon reads off several lists of names of people who donated $ 100 to the Oklahoma City SPCA and Academy of Contemporary Music at University of Central Oklahoma.

Contemporary reports that Jack Warner had banned the use of the German language throughout the company's Burbank studio were denied by studio representatives, who indicated this move would have prevented scores of studio employees from communicating with each other.

Contemporary usage has broadened the meaning of Louisiana Creoles to describe a broad cultural group of people of all races who share a French or Spanish background.

In 2008 the company changed its name to California Contemporary Ballet ) who directed and choreographed it with original music composed and performed by Randall Michael Tobin.

The first exhibition will focus on art from South and Southeast Asia and is to be curated by Singaporean June Yap, who has worked for six years in the curatorial departments of modern and contemporary art museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum.

" Toff, who is also an editor for Oxford University Press, describes in some detail the etymology of words for " flute ," comparing OED, Fowler's Modern English Usage, Evans ' Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, and Copperud's American Usage and Style: The Consensus before arriving at her conclusion: " I play the flute, not the flaut ; therefore I am a flutist not a flautist.

From 1947 he collaborated with a fellow lapsed Trotskyist, the German expatriate Josef Weber, in New York in the Movement for a Democracy of Content, a group of 20 or so post-Trotskyists who collectively edited the periodical Contemporary Issues-A Magazine for a Democracy of Content.

Pipe organs have been set aside for electric guitars and drums … People who enjoy Contemporary Christian Music, want to feel like God is here and now, not some dusty relic from the dark ages that can't possibly understand the issues of today.

In the mid-1970s, there was a brief resurgence of talent, energized by Cuti, artist Joe Staton and the " CPL Gang " — a group of writer / artist comics fans including John Byrne, Roger Stern, Bob Layton, and Roger Slifer, who had all worked on the fanzine CPL ( Contemporary Pictorial Literature ).

Contemporary sources describe John as a rather short but well-built man, with reddish blonde hair and beard and blue eyes who was attractive to women.

Contemporary observers suggested Aldrich ’ s proposal was aimed at J. P. Morgan & Co. A later Glass-Steagall critic cited Aldrich ’ s involvement as evidence the Rockefellers ( who controlled Chase ) had used Section 21 to keep J. P. Morgan & Co. ( a deposit taking private partnership best known for underwriting securities ) from competing with Chase in the commercial banking business.

Contemporary scholars continue to debate who was Muslim and who was Jew-some " Islamic scholars " were " Jewish scholars " prior to forced conversion to Islam, some Jewish scholars willingly converted to Islam, such as Abdullah ibn Salam, while others later reverted to Judaism, and still others, born and raised as Jews, were ambiguous in their religious beliefs such as Ibn al-Rawandi-though lived according to the customs of their neighbors.