Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Diamond said the reason for this phenomenon is that Eurasia stretches 10,000 miles from east to west, whereas the Americas stretch 10,000 miles from north to south...
Diamond said many people have tried to explainthis diversification phenomenon in racial terms,saying that Africans were simply lazier thanEuropeans and did not have the energy to migrate...
During the talk, Shankar told the audience he had created his plan in response to a general observation of an increased level of violence and aggression in today's children. This phenomenon, he said, was made even more apparent by the recent tragedy in Littleton, Colo...
...current burgeoning and outwardly-branching musical movement appear to answer the wrong questions. One can be true to hip hop (exclude those who don't), or the definition of hip hop itself can expand. But to essentialize what to everyone but a purist is such a multi-faceted phenomenon, seems to forget a vast audience and sell hip hop short. KRS-One challenged everyone in the room to proclaim, "I am hip hop" and to become the expression...
...which tend to be associated with a constructed definition; artists, journalists and others who are so inclined often invoke an ideology, a generalized message or an essentialized doctrine. Folk music, which may be said to have stemmed from labor and anti-war movements, is an example of such a phenomenon, as is a transatlantic punk movement of the late '70s--bands such as the Clash, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Television and the Sex Pistols. Both of these groupings arose organically through an interaction between music makers and music listeners; yet both also have lost this political consciousness...