Though conditions have improved somewhat over the past few years, the Khadem are still stereotyped by mainstream Yemenese society, considering them lowly, dirty, ill-mannered, immoral and untouchables.

Though film noir is often identified with a visual style, unconventional within a Hollywood context, that emphasizes low-key lighting and unbalanced compositions, films commonly identified as noir evidence a variety of visual approaches, including ones that fit comfortably within the Hollywood mainstream.

Though the Indian music craze soon died down among mainstream audiences, die hard fans and immigrants continued the fusion.

Though ill-received by mainstream American reviewers, Dead Man found much favor internationally and among critics, many of whom lauded it as a visionary masterpiece.

Though there is a Christian occult tradition that goes back at least to Renaissance times, when Marsilio Ficino developed a Christian Hermeticism and Pico della Mirandola developed a Christian form of Kabbalism, mainstream institutional Christianity has always resisted occult influences, which are:

Though the more mainstream body of Modern Orthodox Judaism, such as the Rabbinical Council of America, does not recognize ordination from UTJ.

This is in contrast to various independent media, such as alternative weekly newspapers, specialized magazines in various organizations and corporations, and various electronic sources such as podcasts and blogs ( Though certain blogs are more mainstream than others given their association with a mainstream source.

Though progressive metal was, and has remained, primarily an album-oriented genre, this mainstream exposure increased the genre's profile, and opened doors for other bands.

Though mainstream audiences in the early sixties preferred a clean-cut style – epitomised by the acts that appeared on the Nine Network pop show Bandstand – there were a number of ' grungier ' guitar-oriented bands in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne, who were inspired by American and British instrumental and surf acts like Britain's The Shadows – who exerted an enormous influence on Australian and New Zealand music prior to the emergence of The Beatles – and American acts like guitar legend Dick Dale and The Surfaris.

Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry.

" Though well-received by both peers and critics, and attaining a few moderate pop and several major R & B hits while at Atlantic, Burke never broke through into the mainstream as did Sam Cooke or Otis Redding, who covered Burke's " Down in the Valley " for 1965's Otis Blue.

Though new to mainstream audiences, Mayall and Edmondson had been using it in 20th Century Coyote for some time.

Though Vanguart had an album released before Mallu Magalhães, it was her emergence that consolidated them both and others as a fully recognised mainstream scene, topping charts and being featured in prime time television and advertising.

Though rejected by mainstream historians, these ideas have been developed by other historians such as David Rohl and Peter James, who have also attempted their own revised chronologies.

Though jazz rap had achieved little mainstream success, jazz legend Miles Davis ' final album ( released posthumously in 1992 ), Doo-Bop, was based around hip hop beats and collaborations with producer Easy Mo Bee.

Though he has had minor roles in mainstream films such as Goodfellas, he is most associated with independent movies, including Buffalo ' 66, which he wrote, directed, scored and starred in ; The Brown Bunny, which he also wrote, directed, produced, starred in and photographed ; Arizona Dream ; The Funeral ; and Palookaville.

Though sprites have been a major component of many early video games, the modern, " mainstream " activity called " Spriting " arose with the advent of widely-available computer graphics programs capable of editing and saving raster images.

Though only briefly brushing the mainstream with the single " Cut Your Hair " in 1994, Pavement was a successful indie rock band.

Though both govern learning and speech, Sarasvati represents the orthodox knowledge of the Brahmins while Matangi — the wild and ecstatic outcast — embodies the " extraordinary " beyond the boundaries of mainstream society, especially inner knowledge.

Though Gregory of Tours made a version, mainstream Christian tradition rejects the Acts of Thomas as pseudepigraphical and apocryphal, and for its part, the Roman Catholic Church finally confirmed the Acts as heretical at the Council of Trent.

Though increasingly debated in academic circles, this approach has remained outside the range of official efforts to resolve the conflict as well as mainstream analysis, where it is eclipsed by the two-state solution.

Though bluegrass has never quite achieved mainstream status, it did become well-known through its use in several recorded plays, including the T. V.

Though the trend faded it did not stop Latinos from having hits in the mainstream market.

Though there are examples of mainstream scientists supporting maverick ideas within their own discipline of expertise, fringe science theories and ideas are often advanced by individuals either without a traditional academic science background, or by researchers outside the mainstream discipline, The media also play a role in the creation and propagation of the view that certain fields of science are " controversial ".

Though it topped the country albums charts, it stalled at No. 71 on the pop albums chart ; the album's single, " Light of a Clear Blue Morning " only reached No. 87 on the Hot 100.

Though elements from Splendora's theme were used on occasion, Daria < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s incidental music was taken from pop music songs.

Though he strove to become a respected rock musician along the lines of Mick Jagger or Alice Cooper, his channel of stardom launched him into the ranks of teen idol, a brand he loathed until much later in life when he managed to come to terms with his bubblegum pop beginnings.

Though none of the three singles from the album went far on the pop charts, their R & B success was swift and massive.

Though it only ran for a few months prior to Big L's closure, The Perfumed Garden got more fan mail than the rest of the pop DJ's on Radio London put together, so much that staff wondered what to do with it all.

Though influences on the genre can be traced as far back as the 1940s, modern dream pop originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s-the term, however, was used almost exclusively in the United States.

Japanese music: Though elements of traditional Japanese music can be found in some rock and pop from the country, the only major roots revival was Okinawan, and began in the late 1980s.

Though they continued charting on the R & B charts in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the O ' Jays never again achieved pop success.

Though not a commercial success at the time, it is now recognized as a milestone album in the history of power pop music.

Though their singing voices were soft and appropriate for pop vocals, their speaking voices are much different.

Though the government had expected Bantu Radio to play folk music, African music had developed into numerous pop genres, and the nascent recording studios used radio to push their pop stars.

Though he has been most successful with country audiences, he has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone.

Though never fully produced, several staged readings were performed at Lincoln Center starring Melanie as the narrator and pop singer and actress Annie Golden as Oakley.

Though Thailand was never colonized by colonial powers, pop music and other forms of modern Asian, European and American music have become extremely influential.

Though modern musicians have updated the Čalgija into a spectrum of hard and soft, classical and pop sounds, some traditional musicians remain.

Though time has passed to allow for the rise and fall of several pop culture icons, marriages, pregnancies, and births of various characters, all the characters still maintain their age at the time of their introduction.

Though produced by pop legend Todd Rundgren, the album failed to sell.

Though both singles went to # 1 on the Billboard dance chart in 1987, neither of the singles performed well in the general pop charts.

Though he is a pre-rock pop singer, many of his songs have a decided rock beat to them, including " Heartaches by the Number ", " Rock-a-Billy ", " The Same Old Me " and his biggest hit, " Singing the Blues ", which was number one for 10 weeks in 1956.

Though this version of the group had minor hits from 1977 – 79, they failed to hit the pop Top 40 for two years and parted ways with Thom Bell.

Though many popular games quickly entered the lexicon of popular culture, most have since left, and Pac-Man is unusual in remaining a recognized term in pop culture, along with Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Mario, and Frogger.