Nongak, farmers ' dance

* Nongak ( 농악 ), farmers ' performance

Nongak is a rural form of percussion music, typically played by twenty to thirty performers.

Village folk dress themselves to look like a cow or a turtle, and go from house to house along with a Nongak band playing music.

Practically all the people of Laos, he explained -- about two million of them -- are rice farmers, and the means and motives of modern war are as strange to them as clocks and steel plows.

FARC has called for crop substitution programs that would allow coca farmers to find alternative means of income and subsistence.

The result of large scale eviction of competent commercial white farmers, the government's land reform efforts and the severing of economic ties with Mozambique, means that was longer the case.

The term Swamp Yankee is sometimes used in rural Rhode Island, Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts to refer to Protestant farmers of moderate means and their descendants ( in contrast to richer or urban Yankees ); " swamp Yankee " is often regarded as a derogatory term.

Sometimes this means that farmers have to add extra water after a rainstorm, to carry salts back down to below the root zone.

While the growth in sales of processed foods in these countries has been much more rapid than the growth in fresh food sales, the imperative nature of supermarkets to achieve economies of scale in purchasing, means that the expansion of supermarkets in these countries has important repercussions for small farmers, particularly those growing perishable crops.

Originally produced with collaborative input from the Ministry of Agriculture, The Archers was conceived as a means of disseminating information to farmers and smallholders to help increase productivity in the post-World War II years of rationing and food shortages.

The relative poverty of many cocoa farmers means that environmental consequences such as deforestation are given little significance.

Over the remaining years of the Great Depression, the once-common practice of sharecropping and tenant farming became exceedingly rare, and vast amounts of tenant farmers were put out, without homes or means of income.

Furthermore, cotton farmers left fields bare over winter months, when winds in the High Plains are highest, and burned the stubble as a means to control weeds prior to planting, thus depriving the soil of organic nutrients and surface vegetation.

Most of the early European-American settlers were of little means ; they were subsistence farmers throughout the early years of the county's establishment.

As the western districts were under-represented in the colonial legislature, it was difficult for the farmers to obtain redress by legislative means.

The settlement of the county began along the White River that afforded farmers a convenient means to transport their crops for sale.

This development brought new prosperity and further growth, as local farmers now had a means of marketing their produce.

Cypress was originally nicknamed " Waterville " due to the preponderance of artesian wells in the area, but was incorporated under the name Dairy City in 1956 by local dairy farmers as a means of staving off developers and to preserve their dairies, much like the then-neighboring cities of Dairy Valley in Cerritos and Dairyland in La Palma.

As people left the town, land prices steadily deflated, enabling some farmers with means to buy up large tracts throughout North Stonington and adjoining towns.

Within these families were people of means and learning, including farmers, weavers, carpenters, and smiths.

Archie began as a trade point, connecting by means of the railroad, the outside world with the local farmers in south Cass County.

As it did for its neighbors, Grelton, Malinta, Hamler, Deshler, Holgate, Liberty Center, and Grand Rapids, the railroad brought McClure a means for farmers to get their goods to market.

The coupling of the subsidy means that they will continue to have significant trade-distoring effect, most notably on West African farmers who are unable to compete with subsidised cotton

For farmers on the western frontier, such a journey was expensive, time-consuming, and beyond their means.

This means that Nestlé will source the cocoa volume needed to produce all KitKat ’ s in the Netherlands from cocoa farmers and cooperatives that participate in The Cocoa Plan.

Water buffalo have been domesticated in the Philippines as far back as pre-Hispanic times and are often used by farmers in the Philippines to plow the fields and as a means of transportation.

Gould had promoted the plan to Grant as a means to help farmers sell a bountiful 1869 wheat crop to Europe.

In a time when most were farmers of modest means, the Bradford family owned a large farm and were considered wealthy and influential.

One means to help the birds occurs to me: Let the chimes that ring over Washington Square twice daily, discontinue any piece of music but one.

He also helped Schoenberg run his Society for Private Musical Performances, which sought to create the ideal environment for the exploration and appreciation of unfamiliar new music by means of open rehearsals, repeat performances, and the exclusion of professional critics.

The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music ( in music theory and religious contexts ), or more generally, a song ( or composition ) of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term " national anthem " or " sports anthem ".

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

Alan Stivell at Nuremberg, Germany, 2007Celtic music means two things mainly.

He found, in Haydn's music and later in his study of the polyphony of Bach, the means to discipline and enrich his gifts.

With country music record sales declining as rock and roll took over, Atkins and Bob Ferguson took their cue from Owen Bradley and eliminated fiddles and steel guitar as a means of making country singers appeal to pop fans.

Several techniques are used by DJs as a means to better mix and blend recorded music.

The common element of most house music is a 4 / 4 beat generated by a drum machine or other electronic means ( such as a sampler ), together with a solid ( usually also electronically generated ) synth bassline.

Electronic music was once associated almost exclusively with Western art music but from the late 1960s on the availability of affordable music technology meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the popular domain.

The spread of music videos now means there is a steady demand for emerging talent without the requirements of seeking feature film funding.

It is only recently, with the discovery and publication of a great deal of hitherto unknown or forgotten music by various Renaissance composers, that we have had the means to properly assess Palestrina in historical context.

Erinville ( which means Irishville ), Salmon River, Ogden, Bantry ( named after Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland but now abandoned and grown up in trees ) among others, where Irish last names are prevalent and the accent is reminiscent of the Irish as well as the music, traditions, religion ( Roman Catholic ), and the love of Ireland itself.

A basic karaoke machine consists of a music player, microphone inputs, a means of altering the pitch of the played music, and an audio output.

This means that the voice, as part of the music, has equal volume on both stereo channels and no phase difference.

Thus, in the first twenty years of the 20th century many writers, thinkers, and artists broke with the traditional means of organizing literature, painting, and music ; the results were abstract art, atonal music, and the stream of consciousness technique in the novel.

It must be presented by means of non-traditional characteristics, you see … one might say that the origin of this music is also found in the interest in ‘ plastifying ’ music, of rendering it plastic like sculpture … musique concrète, in my opinion … led to a manner of composing, indeed, a new mental framework of composing " ( James 1981, 79 ).

Music administrators such as Michael Tilson Thomas and Esa-Pekka Salonen argued that new music, new means of presenting it, and a renewed relationship with the community could revitalize the symphony orchestra.