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Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
Franz FerdinandRock group In the late 1990s, the world of mainstream pop was dominated by teen-pop groups like the Backstreet Boys and N*Sync, as well as hip-hop and R&B. Come the new millennium, however, rock and roll seemed to start kicking back, bolstered by the newfound success of bands... Read more
folk art folk art
folk art the art works of a culturally homogeneous people produced by artists without formal training. The forms of such works are generally developed into a tradition that is either cut off from or tenuously connected to the contemporary cultural mainstream. Folk art often involves craft... Read more
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I NTERNET Information Superhighway The revolutionary technology of the Internet and the World Wide Web created a whole new digital culture in America during the 1990s. The idea of an "Information Superhighway" that could link anyone in the world through nearly... Read more
Civil society Civil society
Civil Society: Responses in Africa and the Middle Eas "All vogue words tend to share a similar fate," observes Zygmunt Bauman. "The more experiences they pretend to make apparent, the more they themselves become opaque. The more numerous are the orthodox truths they elbow out and supplant, the... Read more
Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka , 1934-, American poet, playwright, and political activist, b. Newark, N.J., as LeRoi Jones, studied at Rutgers Univ., Howard Univ. (B.A., 1954). He gained notoriety in 1964 when four of his plays— Dutchman, The Toilet, The Baptism, and The Slave —were produced... Read more
Joseph Soloveitchik Joseph Soloveitchik
Joseph Soloveitchik , 1903-93, Jewish Talmudist and philosopher. Born into a rabbinic family in Poland, he was educated according to his grandfather's analytical method of Talmud study and also earned a Ph.D. at the Univ. of Berlin in 1931. In 1932 he came to the United States where he became rabbi... Read more
Patti Smith Patti Smith
Patti Smith Singer, songwriter Ronettes, Rimbaud and the Rock Life Hampered by Band, Injury Followed Mainstream Success with Retirement Re-Emerged With Occasional Albums Selected discography Selected writings Sources My design was to shake things up,” Patti Smith proclaimed in a 1996 Rolling... Read more
Scarface Scarface
Scarface Rap musician For the Record… Selected discography Sources Scarface became the most admired rapper in the southern United States in the 1980s, rising to prominence as a member of the group Geto Boys. He left the group in 1991 to start a solo career he had abandoned before joining the... Read more
Quakers Quakers
Quakers Sources Radical Roots. The Society of Friends, or Quakers as they are better known, have always stood apart from the mainstream of American religion. Because of this, they offer some important lessons about the range of religious beliefs and practices in early America. During the... Read more
Grandmaster Flash Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash Rap musician, disc jockey Known as one of the founding fathers of hip-hop, Grandmaster Flash was one of rap's earliest technical pioneers; the innovative turntable techniques he experimented with in the 1970s have become synonymous with rap and hip-hop today. Flash and his group,... Read more

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