From the early modern period onwards, this Western-style organizational form gradually spread from the medieval Latin west across the globe, eventually replacing all other higher-learning institutions and becoming the preeminent model for higher education everywhere.

While not personally inclined toward music, Peter saw European music as a mark of civilization and a way of Westernizing the country ; his establishment of the Western-style city of Saint Petersburg helped foster its spread to the rest of the upper classes.

According to Grove Music Online, " Western-derived pop styles, whether coexisting with or marginalizing distinctively local genres, have spread throughout the world and have come to constitute stylistic common denominators in global commercial music cultures ".

American culture spread around the world with the advent of Hollywood, Broadway, rock and roll, pop music, fast food, big-box stores, and the hip-hop lifestyle.

" The site soon became an internet phenomenon, and as the phrase quickly spread all throughout pop culture the site grew exponentially in users and renown.

Dangdut was originally an Indonesian dance music that has spread throughout Southeast Asia, became the dominant pop style in the mid-1970s.

According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, folk tales of the Jersey Devil prior to 1909 calling it the " Leeds Devil " may have been created to discredit local politician Daniel Leeds who served as deputy to the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the 1700s, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand wrote that the spread of contemporary pop culture has overtaken traditional Jersey Devil legends.

From Rushdi's pop hits to songs sung by the Hassan siblings, to bands including Junoon, Vital Signs, Hadiqa Kiyani, and Strings, Abrar-ul-Haq to Shehzad Roy the Pakistani pop industry has steadily spread throughout South Asia and today is the most popular genre in Pakistan.

Some usages in mainly American pop culture have contributed to the spread of this word.

Kobayashi would create the music for the titular pop star, Lily Chou-Chou ( voiced by Japanese singer Salyu ), that is spread through the film ( as well as Debussy ), and later be released as an album entitled Kokyu ( Breathe ).

This is now be a club night spread over all three academy rooms, playing a variety of indie / pop music.

With the invention of the magnetic pickup, the usage of the dan bau spread to ensembles and also to contemporary Asian pop and rock music.

The new pirate radio stations abandoned the mainstream pop radio format and moved to a " raves on the air " format with strong emphasis on audience participation, enabled by the spread of mobile phones.

Bracketology as a discipline has spread beyond a focus on basketball, into other sports, as well as pop culture, history, nature, and other topics where a loose application of binary opposition may be profitable for study or enjoyment.

Those songs spread and gained success through LP compilations of dance / pop music, and bootleg tapes, so, the band could never take advantage of this success, as neither those songs could properly appear on any music charts as " singles " anyway.

These and many more are relative mainly to the Afro-Caribbean community as a result of pop culture and have spread out into p redominantly Caucasian / Asian areas over time.

Two slices pop up, you whip one out, and spread some margarine on it.

According to music writer Piero Scaruffi, the disco phenomenon spread quickly because the " collective ecstasy " of disco was cathartic and regenerative and led to freedom of expression.

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

Prior to his death, Parsons stated that he wanted his body cremated at Joshua Tree and his ashes spread over Cap Rock, a prominent natural feature there ; however, Parsons ' stepfather arranged for a private ceremony back in New Orleans and neglected to invite any of his friends from the music industry.

Grindcore's impact spread quickly through the world of extreme music.

The greatest influence on use of the harp has always been the availability of fine harps and skilled players, and the great increase of them in the U. S. of the 20th century resulted in its spread into popular music.

The spread and following of Western classical music in India is almost entirely non-existent.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

In 1999 they released an extended play named after the group, which they plugged into internet chat-rooms and developed an informal ' street team ' from the on-line community to spread the music.

Associated with the Fête de la Musique, created by Jack Lang in Paris in 1981 to celebrate music and musicians, the Festa was incorporated into the Italian Minister of Culture's agenda in 1994, and has since spread across Italy as well as the world, encouraging the cooperation and musical exchanges between the participating cities.

Radio stations that made white and black forms of music available to both groups, the development and spread of the gramophone record, and African American musical styles such as jazz and swing which were taken up by white musicians, aided this process of " cultural collision ".

Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major sub-cultures including mods and rockers in the UK and the " hippie " counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960s.

Music printing had a major effect on how music spread for not only did a printed piece of music reach a larger audience than any manuscript ever could, it did it far cheaper as well.

From that moment on, samba started to spread across the country, initially associated with Carnival and then developing its own place in the music market.

From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.

In the later half of the 1970s, The Stranglers toured Japan twice, joining the alternative music scene of Tokyo, which was evolving from the punk sound of Kyoto based band 村八分 ( Ostracism ), whose music influence spread to Tokyo in 1971.

Subject matter depicts amateur social music making, featuring lute, bass viol, and singers, with part books spread around the table.

As many movies and much music originate from the United States, American culture spread rapidly over the world.

Today, awareness of the Rastafari movement has spread throughout much of the world, largely through interest generated by reggae music, especially the major international success of Jamaican singer / songwriter Bob Marley ( 1945 – 1981 ).

The origins of choral music are found in traditional music, as singing in big groups is extremely widely spread in traditional cultures ( both singing in one part, or in unison, like in Ancient Greece, as well as singing in parts, or in harmony, like in contemporary European choral music ).

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

The next step is to remove it and spread glue where it has been marked at the contact points.

Though the spread of this type of decoration in the Aegean has not yet been precisely determined, it seems to appear first in the Cyclades, which were among the leading exporters of pottery throughout the century.

Depending on the thickness of the adobe bricks, the framework has been performed using a steel framing and a layering of a metal fencing or wiring over the framework to allow an even load as masses of adobe are spread across the metal fencing like cob and allowed to air dry accordingly.

The group has more than 23, 000 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies.

The first layer spread over the wall of the cavity has been called the " priming ", and upon this base zeolitic minerals may be deposited.

It is a popular snack sold in Mexico, sometimes mixed with chocolate or puffed rice, and its use has spread to Europe and parts of North America.

It has also been recently suggested that the rapid climatic collapse, marking the Akkadian Dark Age, may have been responsible for the religiously prescribed prohibition against the raising and consumption of pigs that spread through the Ancient Middle East from the end of the third millennium BC.

Although there were low levels of preexisting antibiotic-resistant bacteria before the widespread use of antibiotics, evolutionary pressure from their use has played a role in the development of muiltidrug resistance varieties and the spread of resistance between bacterial species.

AA membership has since spread " across diverse cultures holding different beliefs and values ", including geopolitical areas resistant to grassroot movements.

Today the BHS has over 30, 000 members in 800 chapters across the United States, and the barbershop style has spread around the world with organizations in many other countries.

The latter in particular has spread widely, and there are now over a hundred Camphill communities and other anthroposophical homes for children and adults in need of special care in about 22 countries around the world.

Many Aleuts now live across the state and not only in the Aleutians which has helped to spread the arts of their people and to better develop methods of creating their arts.

:“ I never thought that spreading ignorance has any advantage, except for those who are in a position of power and want to deprive others of their rights and spread ignorance in order to keep them underlings .”

The use of tall smokestacks to reduce local pollution has contributed to the spread of acid rain by releasing gases into regional atmospheric circulation.

The IMF has enabled an initial disbursement of 60. 8 million euro, saying that the rest of the money will be spread out over two years, after successful quarterly reviews.

A significant contribution to the northward spread of Bluetongue disease has been the ability of Culicoides obsoletus and C. pulicaris to acquire and transmit the disease, both of which are spread widely throughout Europe.

The relatively recent novel vector has facilitated a far more rapid spread than the simple expansion of habitats North through global warming.

Since then the virus has spread from cattle to sheep in Britain.

As Bigfoot has become better known and a phenomenon in popular culture, sightings have spread throughout North America.

The infection has spread to Oregon, California, and South Dakota.

If you come up with an innovation that serves, that resonates with customers, the Internet will allow that innovation to spread dramatically faster than any other technology has enabled a new innovation to be adopted in the history of mankind.

In the 20th century, it has spread to Germany, Britain, France, and several other countries around the globe.