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mainstream and popularity
Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It's Friday contributed to disco's rise in mainstream popularity.
Emblematic of country music's rise to mainstream popularity was the commercially successful 1980 movie Urban Cowboy.
While Captain Marvel did not recapture his old popularity, he later appeared in a Saturday morning live action TV adaptation and gained a prominent place in the mainstream continuity DC calls the DC Universe.
At the same times, their popularity is such that no government can call itself democratic that excludes mainstream Islamist groups.
Lindy Hop entered mainstream American culture in the 1930s, gaining popularity through multiple sources.
In the mid-to-late 1990s the popularity of neo swing music of the swing revival stimulated mainstream interest in the dance.
In late 1993, Meat Puppets achieved mainstream popularity when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who became a fan after seeing them open for Black Flag, invited Cris and Curt to join him on MTV Unplugged for acoustic performances of " Plateau ", " Oh Me " and " Lake of Fire " ( all originally from Meat Puppets II ).
Herbie Hancock was one of the first jazz pianists to find mainstream popularity working with newer urban music techniques.
By the turn of the century, pop punk had been adopted by the mainstream, as bands such as Green Day and The Offspring brought the genre widespread popularity.
" Nirvana's success opened the door to mainstream popularity for a wide range of other " left-of-the-dial " acts, such as Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and fueled the alternative rock boom of the early and mid-1990s.
Other California punk bands on the independent label Epitaph, run by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, also began achieving mainstream popularity.
While psychophysiology was a discipline off the mainstream of psychological and medical science prior to roughly the 1960 and 1970s, more recently, psychophysiology has found itself positioned at the intersection of psychological and medical science, and its popularity and importance have expanded commensurately with the realization of the inter-relatedness of mind and body.
While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity.
The popularity of her number-one hit " With Every Heartbeat " and subsequent international album release Robyn ( 2005 ) in 2007 brought her mainstream success worldwide.
Now the term R & B is almost always used instead of the full rhythm and blues, and mainstream use of the term usually refers to contemporary R & B, which is a newer version of soul and funk-influenced pop music that originated as disco faded from popularity.
REO Speedwagon's mainstream popularity dissipated in the 1990s but the band remains a popular live act.
Jazz largely surpassed ragtime in mainstream popularity in the early 1920s, although ragtime compositions continue to be written up to the present, and periodic revivals of popular interest in ragtime occurred in the 1950s and the 1970s.
The show was a hit for the Fox network ; initially it was considered a cult show, but eventually gained mainstream popularity.
Pee-wee Herman gained mainstream popularity with a successful stage show at The Groundlings and then the Roxy which was later turned into an HBO special.
" Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 80s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public.
Pac-Man ( 1980 ) was the first game to achieve widespread popularity in mainstream culture and the first game character to be popular in his own right.
Classic pop declined in popularity as rock and roll entered the mainstream and became a major force in American record sales.
Hip hop music also saw a decline in the mainstream during the late 2000s because of electronic music's rising popularity.
Follow ups, You've Come a Long Way, Baby and Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars as well as their associated singles including " The Rockafeller Skank ", " Praise You ", " Right Here Right Now " and " Weapon of Choice " helped to popularise the big beat genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.

mainstream and paved
While Mellow Man Ace was the first mainstream rapper to use Spanglish, Frost's song " La Raza " paved the way for its use in American hip hop.
Some contend that these productions paved the way for more explicit violence in both horror and mainstream films.
The end of the 19th century did mark a significant accomplishment in the profession with the advancements in asepsis and anesthesia which paved the way for the mainstream introduction and later success of the Caesarean Section.
Psychedelic soul was a blend of psychedelic rock and soul music in the late 1960s, which paved the way for the mainstream emergence of funk music a few years later.
With their glam rock style and musical references of urban Britain, Suede paved the way for acts such as Blur and Pulp to enter the British mainstream.
Gibson's gamble paved the way for Downey's comeback and Downey returned to mainstream films in the mid-2000s with Gothika, for which producer Joel Silver withheld 40 percent of his salary until after production wrapped as insurance against his addictive behavior.
Since then, Paraty has been out of the mainstream, which is why it did not change for centuries, until a paved road was built from Rio de Janeiro to Santos, near São Paulo, in the 1970s.
The Daddies are more widely recognized, however, as one of the first bands to revive swing music in the musical mainstream, helping spearhead the swing revival of the late 1990s which paved the way for the larger successes of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Brian Setzer Orchestra.

mainstream and way
Cult films are often known to be eccentric, often do not follow traditional standards of mainstream cinema and usually explore topics not considered in any way mainstream — yet there are examples that are relatively normal.
Many of his principles, therefore, found their way back into the mainstream animation consciousness, and can be seen in films such as The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo & Stitch.
Various introductory texts to critical psychology written in the United Kingdom have tended to focus on discourse, but this has been seen by some proponents of critical psychology as a reduction of human experience to language which is as politically dangerous as the way mainstream psychology reduces experience to the individual mind.
Especially in the United States, detective fiction emerged in the 1960s, and gained prominence in later decades, as a way for authors to bring stories about various subcultures to mainstream audiences.
Freestyle shortly thereafter gave way to mainstream pop artists such as MC Hammer, Paula Abdul, Bobby Brown, New Kids on the Block and Milli Vanilli, who used hip hop beats and electro samples, but in a mainstream form and with slicker production and MTV-friendly videos.
The novel was written in contemporary English for a mass audience, in the same way that mainstream Hollywood movies depicting the Second World War commonly depict German characters talking in English.
Many aspects of modernist design still persist within the mainstream of contemporary architecture today, though its previous dogmatism has given way to a more playful use of decoration, historical quotation, and spatial drama. In other arts such pragmatic considerations were less important.
One way Mormon fundamentalism distinguishes itself from mainstream Mormonism is through the practice of plural marriage.
The analysis of " mainstream Puritanism " in terms of the evolution from it of separatist and antinomian groups that did not flourish, and others that continue to this day such as Baptists and Quakers, can suffer in this way, as well as risking an incoherent view of where the burden of belief lay for the " godly ".
During the 1960s and 1970s, psychosis was of particular interest to counterculture critics of mainstream psychiatric practice, who argued that it may simply be another way of constructing reality and is not necessarily a sign of illness.
It gained him mainstream recognition: on the day of the machine's unveiling, Walter Cronkite used the machine to give his signature soundoff, " And that's the way it is, January 13, 1976.
Slang may fall into disuse over time ; sometimes, however, it grows more and more common until it becomes the dominant way of saying something, at which time it usually comes to be regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ( e. g. the Spanish word caballo or the English word ain't ), although in the case of taboo words there may not be an expression which is considered mainstream or acceptable.
Vestiges had significant influence on public opinion, and the intense debate helped to pave the way for the acceptance of the more scientifically sophisticated Origin by moving evolutionary speculation into the mainstream.
At one point in a cabinet meeting President Johnson blindsided Grant with an attempt to have him assigned to Mexico as a way of removing him from the political mainstream.
During the 1960s, Shuzo Fujimoto was the first to explore twist fold tessellations in any systematic way, coming up with dozens of patterns and establishing the genre in the origami mainstream.
Even the way people dress can be considered mainstream as many young adults and teenagers are bowing down to " Hipsterism " because they believe it makes them look cool however they are just copying the trends set by others and have lost all originality.
Of special significance in this discussion is the role of the mainstream publisher Routledge who, in our opinion, is responsible for promoting gender as a way of deradicalizing the feminist agenda, re-marketing masculinity and gay male identity instead.
In this sense, the Articles are a revealing window into the ethos and character of Anglicanism, in particular in the way the document works to navigate a via media, or " middle path ," between the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church and of the English Puritans, thus lending the Church of England a mainstream Reformed air.

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