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The opposing view- that dialects are organized in a continuum without sharp boundaries- is likewise popular.
I also do not think that the only future for museums that do want to become more popular is a 'gloomy prospect of complete commodification'.
However, with literature and popular culture the value of a language can be enhanced so that the child will seek more input through that medium.
The test uses recognition of popular authors' names as the dependent measure.
At the same time they are very popular as providers of home entertainment.
There, local advocacy groups have controlled far more than one might imagine, given the popular impression of omnipotent real estate developers.
Interestingly, work with ' poor people ' was most popular by the end of the course.
Emphasis on popular culture may, at first sight, appear to exclude older people especially with its focus on material consumption.
Algorithmic aesthetics are developed based on the aesthetic measure theory, surveys of human preferences, and popular long-lasting symbols.
Undoubtedly they have been aimed at a relatively wide, popular market.
My analysis begins with a sketch of how recordings entered local popular life in the early decades of this century.
As an integrated statement of where popular music studies is in relation to wider contexts, the book is perhaps less successful.
Although there were many women in rock by the late 1960s, most performed only as singers, a traditionally feminine position in popular music.
The questions raised by medieval music reception reach to musicological fields outside medieval studies, but especially ethnomusicology and popular music studies.
Much more remains to be done in the interaction between popular music and medieval music studies.
Record collecting is a major activity, yet a relatively neglected aspect of the consumption of popular music.
However, different popular music cultures ascribe subcultural capital in different ways.
If hooks are less than completely determinate, then every aspect of the popular record must be subject to contingency.
He wouldn't have been making that number if he wasn't popular.
The atmosphere of some popular jazu-kissa approached that of a live but performerless concert, albeit one in which audience-performer interaction was non-existent.
Two things, however, make the era important in terms of popular music policy and export.
I seek to determine what the intermediary movement between cultural policy and popular music has been like.
Over the years, choro has been well understood as a forceful form of popular culture.
A popular explanation holds that large green jurisdictions have been forcing their trading partners to trade or ratchet up their regulation.
Managerialism became popular in the public sector from the 1980s on.
The book makes a valuable contribution to studies of popular culture in transnational contexts.
Pretenders to power were unable to call upon the idioms of class, ethnicity or even religion to rouse popular movements in their support.
In the new popular curriculum, both analysis and investigation as well as praxis would seem to be central in the integral formation of the student.
Popular music policy advocates can look to existing models of public administration as well as critical development theories to enhance the opportunities for interventionary initiatives.
Whether a 'social', 'stylistic' or 'biographical history' of popular music, they all seem to agree on certain central phases.
Popular culture is extensive, attempting to touch upon an audience as large as possible.
There is an unavoidable and often unbearable density and diversity of musical practices that are routinely subsumed under the label 'popular music'.
The processes of making meaning from popular music aren't ever really complete.
The recorded repertoire was now changing, and the proportion of popular music increased considerably after 1908.
The popular impact of her song can also be measured in other ways.
The problem is that such accounts do little to aid an understanding of the popular music industries in the contemporary era.
Transition rules are in fact a rule-based system, and this is the most popular means of implementing transition knowledge.
Questionnaires appeared to be the most popular method, followed by interviews and data log analysis.
The common property of all these methods is that all of them are non-parametric, and they are the most popular among current regression methods.
In recent years, simulation on the intention-level has been most popular.
The interested reader can now choose from a whole spectrum of books ranging from popular introductions to extensive monographs.
Unions by themselves could not change popular culture.
They were extremely popular amongst the residents and drew the highest attendances.
Over the last few decades, movies have become one of the most popular subjects of study in the research of economics of culture.
Even so, these do reflect the popular mood at each of the junctures in time.
There must be room for secular and religious; amateur and professional and elite and popular knowledges.
In other words, popular consensus, or a shared moral universe, may be something of a red herring.
A popular example of an analog model is the use of electrical circuit models of mechanical systems.
The song was recorded and very popular at dances.
The coming of the rock critic did, however, serve to further legitimise popular music as an area of intellectual enquiry.
Rather, popular music activities have been an add-on to existing workloads.
By 1998, all the teachers in the sample declared that they included popular music.
On the whole, popular music concerts were the most common type.
No world music and no popular music are included.
The most popular activity was playing a musical instrument (17%), followed by dancing (12%).
Less popular were the 'mental practice' and 'sing and play' choices.
The result has been a strong rejection of the high-art model and a clear aspiration towards popular culture.
We then ask why music continues to be one of the least popular subjects within the curriculum.
Both genres have been popular in the past, but have been gradually replaced by popular music.
The issue became very popular in the 1970s and 1980s, with the flourishing of the new institutional economics.
One of the most popular abstract models in network reliability problems is the following.
Another popular definition of a proper colouring is the so-called weak colouring.
Although it has drawbacks, the concept of rights has become such a popular one that we ought to look at it.
The claim and the plan pertain to studies of artificial intelligence that are no longer popular.
On the other hand, consumer ism and popular culture became integ rated into bourgeois capitalism and provided it with new leg itimacy and cultural power.
Since the 1920s the popular appeal of motion pictures and their commercial success produced a whole new way of visualising and representing urban exper ience.
There is no doubt that such a proposal will be ver y popular here at home.
At the same time they expressed sympathy with the policy of satisfying rightful popular demands, which they expected the new communist leaden to pursue.
Violence was not a component of popular street politics.
They could not count on the same degree of popular support following any decision to start an armed struggle for power.
Today there is a gulf between popular and elite perceptions.
Many of the popular misconceptions about the twelfth century are also challenged.
They strongly pointed out that their primary preference is popular music and placed western classical music at a lower level.
The students demanded a music education that affirms their own musical values and their strong preference for popular music.
During teacher training, piano teachers were generally popular and often became close to pupils.
What is more, the musics analysed seem to exist in a world without popular music.
Another increasingly popular suggestion is that an individual's lifestyle choices may affect his or her moral claims or entitlements.
The popular label "designer baby" effectively trivializes what is at stake in such decisions.
All these reasons and more suggest why it is that phenomenology has been so popular.
Institutions, structures, processes and grand narratives, are the less popular subjects.
Both these standpoints are popular, though convergence appears to be the favourite at present.
How did the spread of texts influence popular social and political attitudes?
Suspended between middle-class producers and mass readerships, these forms need a certain amount of interpretive openness to maintain their popular status.
The questions asked of popular romance might be fruitfully asked of medieval narrative as well.
The most obvious target of coordinated popular pressure was the precetto.
Like the popular writers, he used in his journalism the word "upper ten" to describe the privileged few.
Thomism had immense explanatory power and was in many respects very popular and successful.
The popular voice has been misleadingly silenced by writers whose primary interest is in literature.
He was by far their most popular target.
The short answer is that the image covered the intersection of official rhetoric and popular nostalgia.
The success of this message should not be underestimated, despite evidence that it could be misinterpreted or shaped to fit popular mentalities.
However, equating the missioners with saints was not simply a matter of popular belief concerning their proximity to sources of sacred power.
A mission lasting just over a week could not hope to eliminate practices which had formed part of the popular consciousness for centuries.
Because high-rise flats became so popular in the city in the 1970s, the demand for modular furniture appropriate for small residences rose.
Moreover, popular schools would seldom be able to accommodate as pupils the children of all parents who wanted to send them there.
Labour ended up with only 209 seats and 27.6 per cent of the popular vote, its lowest since 1918.
There was little doubt that the crowning, vexed with political and religious implications and problems as it was, had popular approval.
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