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A cappella
A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.
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A. R. Rahman
Allahrakka Rahman (born A. S. Dileep Kumar, best known as A. R. Rahman, is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, and music producer. A. R. Rahman's works are noted for integrating Indian classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestral arrangements. Among his awards are six National Film Awards, two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, fifteen Filmfare Awards and seventeen Filmfare Awards South. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, in 2010 by the Government of India. In 2009, Rahman was included on the ''Time'' 100 list of the world's most influential people. The UK-based world-music magazine Songlines named him one of "Tomorrow's World Music Icons" in August 2011. South Indian fans of Rahman refer him with the nickname of "The Mozart of Madras", and "Isai Puyal" (the Musical Storm). With an in-house studio (Panchathan Record Inn in Chennai), Rahman's film-scoring career began during the early 1990s with the Tamil film Roja. Working in India's film industries, international cinema, and theatre, Rahman is one of the best-selling recording artists, with an estimated 200million units sold. In a notable two-decade career, he has been acclaimed for redefining contemporary Indian film music and contributing to the success of several films. Rahman has also become a notable humanitarian and philanthropist, donating and raising money for a number of causes and charities. In 2017, Rahman made his debut as a director and writer for the film Le Musk.
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Aaron Swartz
Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist.
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ABC-CLIO
ABC-CLIO, LLC is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.
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Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Acton, London
Acton is an area of west London, England, within the London Borough of Ealing.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Afrikan Boy
Olushola Ajose, better known by his stage name Afrikan Boy (born 28 March 1989) is a grime MC from Woolwich, London, England, originally from Nigeria.
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AIM (album)
AIM is the fifth studio album by English-Sri Lankan rapper and record producer M.I.A..
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Air (band)
Air are a French electronic music duo from Versailles, France, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel.
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Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War
There are allegations that war crimes were committed by the Sri Lankan military and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) during the Sri Lankan Civil War, particularly during the final months of the Eelam War IV phase in 2009.
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Alternative R&B
Alternative R&B (also referred to as PBR&B, indie R&B, experimental R&B, and hipster R&B) is a term used by music journalists to describe a stylistic alternative to contemporary R&B.
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.
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American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." Officially nonpartisan, the organization has been supported and criticized by liberal and conservative organizations alike.
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Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter.
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa.
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Ann Powers
Ann K. Powers (born February 4, 1964) is an American writer and pop music critic.
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Anti-austerity movement in the United Kingdom
The anti-austerity movement in the United Kingdom saw major demonstrations throughout 2011.
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AOL
AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc., originally known as America Online, and stylized as Aol.) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York.
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.
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Arthur (magazine)
Arthur magazine was a bi-monthly periodical that was founded in October 2002, by publisher Laris Kreslins and editor Jay Babcock.
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Arul Pragasam
Arul Pragasam (also known by the name Arular and A. R. Arudpragasam) is a Tamil activist and former revolutionary from Jaffna who had a part in forming the group Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) in January 1975 in Wandsworth, England during the Tamil independence movements to secure an independent Tamil Eelam.
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Arular
Arular is the debut studio album by English-Sri Lankan recording artist M.I.A..
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Arular Tour
The Arular Tour is a global concert tour by M.I.A. performed in support of her first studio album Arular (2005).
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Ashgate Publishing
Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom).
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Avant-garde
The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.
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Avant-pop
Avant-pop is popular music that is experimental, new, and distinct from previous styles while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener.
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Bad Girls (M.I.A. song)
"Bad Girls" is a song by British recording artist M.I.A. for her fourth studio album, Matangi (2013).
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Balasingham Nadesan
Balasingham Nadesan (Tamil:பாலசிங்கம் நடேசன்) was the LTTEs Political Chief from late 2007 until his death in 2009.
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Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.
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Bang (Rye Rye song)
"Bang" is a song and single by rapper/dancer Rye Rye featuring M.I.A..
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.
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Beastie Boys
The Beastie Boys were an American rap rock band from New York City, formed in 1979.
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Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Bedford–Stuyvesant (colloquially known as Bed–Stuy and Bedford-Stuy) is a neighborhood of 153,000 inhabitants in the north central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Benjamin Bronfman
Benjamin Zachary Bronfman (born August 6, 1982) is an American entrepreneur and musician.
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Bequia
Bequia is the second largest island in the Grenadines at (after Carriacou, a dependency of Grenada).
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Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman.
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Big Day Out
The Big Day Out was an annual music festival that was held in five Australian cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Adelaide and Perth, as well as Auckland, New Zealand.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.
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Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Bionic (Christina Aguilera album)
Bionic (stylized as) is the sixth studio album by American singer Christina Aguilera.
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Bird Flu (song)
"Bird Flu" is an urumee melam-dance song by recording artist M.I.A. on her second studio album Kala (2007).
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Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.
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Blaqstarr
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Blender (magazine)
Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more".
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Blitz (magazine)
Blitz is a Portuguese media brand that focus on popular music and pop culture, based in Paço de Arcos.
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Bonde do Rolê
Bonde do Rolê is a funk carioca-influenced electropop group from Curitiba, Brazil, and consists of MC's Pedro D'Eyrot, Laura Taylor, and DJ/MC Rodrigo Gorky.
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Boney M.
Boney M. was a Euro-Caribbean vocal group created by German record producer Frank Farian.
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Bootleg recording
A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority.
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Borders (M.I.A. song)
"Borders" is a song by recording artist M.I.A. for her fifth studio album, AIM (2016).
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Born Free (M.I.A. song)
"Born Free" is a song by English recording artist M.I.A., released alongside an accompanying short film/music video of the same name from her third album, Maya.
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Born Free (Matt Monro song)
"Born Free" is a popular song with music by John Barry, and lyrics by Don Black.
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Boyz (song)
"Boyz" is a song recorded by artist M.I.A. for her second album Kala (2007).
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Bring the Noize
"Bring the Noize" is a song by British recording artist M.I.A. from her fourth studio album, Matangi (2013).
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Brit Awards
The BRIT Awards (often simply called The BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards.
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British Phonographic Industry
The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industry's trade association.
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British royal family
The British royal family comprises Queen Elizabeth II and her close relations.
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Britpop
Britpop is a UK based music and culture movement in the mid 1990s which emphasised "Britishness", and produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes of the US-led grunge music, an alternative rock genre, and to the UK's own shoegazing music scene.
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Bronfman family
The Bronfman family is a Canadian Jewish family.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.
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Brown University
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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Bucky Done Gun
"Bucky Done Gun" is the third single from musician M.I.A.'s album Arular.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.
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Buraka Som Sistema
Buraka Som Sistema was an electronic dance music project from Portugal, specializing in a fusion of techno beats with the African zouk and kuduro genre.
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CAAMFest
CAAMFest, known prior to 2013 as the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), is presented every March in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States as the nation’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films.
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Calgary Herald
The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Campus radio
Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution.
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Canadian Singles Chart
The Canadian Singles Chart is compiled by the American-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan.
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Carri Munden
Carri Munden is an English fashion designer.
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Cavemen (songwriters)
Cavemen is a British songwriting/production/remix duo comprising Steve Mackey, formerly of Pulp, and Ross Orton of Fat Truckers.
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CB4
CB4 is a 1993 American comedy film directed by Tamra Davis and starring Chris Rock.
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CBC Radio
CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as simply "CBC") is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network that is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Headquartered at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free.
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Censorship on MTV
Censorship on MTV has been the subject of debate for years.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).
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Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City.
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Central Saint Martins
Central Saint Martins, often abbreviated to CSM, is a public tertiary art school in London, England.
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Chennai
Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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Chicago Review Press
Chicago Review Press, or CRP, is a U.S. book publisher and an independent company founded in 1973.
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Children in the military
Children in the military are children (defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child as persons under the age of 18) who are associated with military organisations, such as state armed forces and non-state armed groups.
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Chris Brown
Christopher Maurice Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor.
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Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.
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Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer.
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Chutzpah
Chutzpah is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad.
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City Parks Foundation
City Parks Foundation is dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through sports, arts, community building and education programs for all New Yorkers.
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Clash (magazine)
Clash is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom.
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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly referred to as Coachella or the Coachella Festival) is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, located in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert.
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Coda (music)
In music, a coda (Italian for "tail", plural code) is a passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end.
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Complex (magazine)
Complex is an American New York-based media platform for youth culture which was founded as a bi-monthly magazine by fashion designer Marc (Ecko) Milecofsky.
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Concussion
Concussion, also known as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is typically defined as a head injury that temporarily affects brain functioning.
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Contactmusic.com
Contactmusic.com is an online magazine of cultural criticism based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Continuum International Publishing Group
Continuum International Publishing Group was an academic publisher of books with editorial offices in London and New York City.
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Council house
A council house is a form of public or social housing built by local municipalities in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Croydon
Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross.
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CSS (band)
CSS (an initialism of Cansei de Ser Sexy) is a Brazilian rock band from São Paulo.
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Culture jamming
Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication) is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements"Investigating the Anti-consumerism Movement in North America: The Case of Adbusters';" Binay, Ayse; (2005); dissertation, University of Texas to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising.
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Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn (born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer.
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Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.
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Dance/Electronic Albums
Dance/Electronic Albums (formerly Top Electronic Albums) is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top-selling electronic music albums in the United States.
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Dance/Electronic Singles Sales
Dance/Electronic Singles Sales (previously known as Hot Dance Singles Sales and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales) was a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, established in 1985.
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Dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.
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David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBE (born 2 January 1938) is an English fashion and portrait photographer.
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Day-Glo Color Corp.
The Day-Glo Color Corp. (DayGlo) is an American, privately held paint and pigments manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Dazed
Dazed (formerly Dazed & Confused) is a bi-monthly British style magazine founded in 1991.
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De Tijd
De Tijd (The Times) is a Belgian newspaper that mainly focuses on business and economics.
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Deize Tigrona
Deize Tigrona is a Brazilian funk carioca musician.
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Demo (music)
A demo (from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release.
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Denise Sullivan
Denise Sullivan is an American music journalist and historian who is the author of music biographies as well as the critically acclaimed music-history book, Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop.
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Diário de Notícias
Diário de Notícias is a Portuguese daily tabloid newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Diesel (brand)
Diesel S.p.A. is an Italian retail clothing company, located in Breganze, Italy.
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Diplo
Thomas Wesley Pentz (born November 10, 1978), better known by his stage name Diplo, is an American music composer, DJ and record producer based in Los Angeles, California.
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Diss (music)
A diss track or diss song is a song intended to disrespect people.
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Dizzee Rascal
Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is an English hip hop recording artist and record producer. A pioneer of grime music, his work has also incorporated elements of UK garage, bassline, British hip hop, and R&B. He released his acclaimed debut album Boy in da Corner in 2003. It has since been considered a grime classic and earned him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English, and Tongue n' Cheek have been critically praised and certified platinum, with Tongue n' Cheek going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units in the United Kingdom. He has scored the number-one hits "Dance wiv Me", "Bonkers", "Holiday", "Dirtee Disco", "Shout".
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Dogme 95
Dogme 95 was a filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who created the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vows of Chastity" (kyskhedsløfter).
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Donatella Versace
Donatella Francesca Versace (born 2 May 1955) is an Italian fashion designer and current vice president of the Versace Group, as well as its chief designer.
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Dressmaker
A dressmaker is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns.
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Drowned in Sound
Drowned in Sound, sometimes abbreviated to DiS, is a UK-based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway.
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Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion.
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Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the late 1990s.
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Dyslexia
Dyslexia, also known as reading disorder, is characterized by trouble with reading despite normal intelligence.
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Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without authorization.
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Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students
The Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), also known as the Eelam Revolutionary Organisers, is a former Tamil militant group in Sri Lanka.
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Elastica
Elastica were an English alternative rock band that played punk rock, post-punk and new wave-influenced music.
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Electro (music)
Electro (or electro-funk).
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Electroclash
Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music.
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.
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European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom)
The European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election, the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009.
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Exclaim!
Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists.
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Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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Extradition
Extradition is the act by one jurisdiction of delivering a person who has been accused of committing a crime in another jurisdiction or has been convicted of a crime in that other jurisdiction into the custody of a law enforcement agency of that other jurisdiction.
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Fabric (club)
Fabric is a nightclub in Farringdon, London, England.
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Ferrari Sheppard
Ferrari Elite Sheppard (born March 3) is an American painter, writer, photographer, activist, and record producer from Chicago, Illinois.
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File sharing
File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books.
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Film treatment
A film treatment (or simply treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a screenplay for a motion picture, television program, or radio play.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Funk carioca
Funk carioca, favela funk, and in other parts in the world, baile funk, is a music genre from Rio de Janeiro, derived from Miami bass and gangsta rap music.
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Fused Magazine
Fused Magazine is an art, design, music and fashion magazine based in Birmingham, England and distributed throughout the United Kingdom.
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Gaana
Gaana is a style of music in Tamil films, originally orginated from (North Madras)in the middle of 1980.
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Galang (song)
"Galang" is a song by British musician M.I.A. from her debut album Arular.
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Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart (born Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart; July 5, 1972) is an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR.
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Gender
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.
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George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (originally known as The Hour) is a Canadian television talk show hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos that aired on CBC Television from 2005 to 2014.
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Germfree Adolescents
Germfree Adolescents is the debut album of English punk rock band X-Ray Spex.
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Give Me All Your Luvin'
"Give Me All Your Luvin'" is a song by American singer Madonna from her twelfth studio album, MDNA (2012).
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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
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GQ
GQ (formerly Gentlemen's Quarterly) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.
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Grammy Award
A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.
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Grammy Award for Record of the Year
The Grammy Award for Record of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to sales or chart position." The Record of the Year award is one of the four most prestigious categories at the awards (alongside Best New Artist, Song of the Year and Album of the Year) presented annually since the 1st Grammy Awards in 1959.
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Greenhaven Press
Greenhaven Press is an American publishing company which mainly publishes books on social issues for middle school and high school students.
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Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.
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Gwen Stefani
Gwen Renée Stefani (born October 3, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, and fashion designer.
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Harajuku Lovers Tour
The Harajuku Lovers Tour was the first solo concert tour of American recording artist Gwen Stefani.
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Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973)"." Retrieved on 2009-10-26.
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High Times
High Times is a New York–based monthly magazine founded in 1974 by Tom Forçade.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.
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HitQuarters
HitQuarters was an international music industry publication and contact database founded in 1999.
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Holy Family Convent, Jaffna
Holy Family Convent is a national school in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.
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Hounslow
Hounslow is a large commercial town and district in west London, England, west-southwest of Charing Cross.
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How Many Votes Fix Mix
How Many Votes Fix Mix is the second EP released in 2008 by the musician M.I.A. (see 2008 in music).
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HuffPost
HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.
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Human migration
Human migration is the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily in a new location.
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Hyphen (magazine)
Hyphen is an American print and online magazine, founded in 2002 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area journalists, activists, and artists including Melissa Hung, a former reporter for the Houston Press and East Bay Express; Claire Light, former executive director at Kearny Street Workshop; Yuki Tessitore, of Mother Jones; Mia Nakano, photojournalist, filmmaker Jennifer Huang, and Stefanie Liang, a graphic designer from Red Herring magazine.
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I-D
i-D is a British bimonthly magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture.
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Independent Albums
The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Independent music
Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Industrial music
Industrial music is a fusion genre of electronic and experimental music which draws on harsh, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes.
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Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
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International Communication Association
The International Communication Association (ICA) is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication.
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Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American major record label.
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Interview (magazine)
Interview was an American magazine founded in late 1969 by artist Andy Warhol and British journalist John Wilcock.
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Iraq War
The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.
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ITunes
iTunes is a media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It was announced on January 9, 2001.
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Jaffna
Jaffna is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.
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Jan Jananayagam
Janani (Jan) Jananayagam (ஜனனி (ஜான்) ஜனநாயகம்) is a British Tamil banking professional, activist and politician.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969) known professionally as Jay-Z (stylized JAY-Z), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist.
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Jeff Chang (journalist)
Jeff Chang is an American journalist and music critic on hip hop music and culture.
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Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949).
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Jian Ghomeshi
Jian Ghomeshi is a Canadian musician, writer, and former CBC radio broadcaster.
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Jimmy (song)
"Jimmy" is a song recorded by British artist M.I.A. for her second studio album, Kala (2007).
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Jimmy Iovine
James Iovine (born March 11, 1953) is a record producer best known as the co-founder of Interscope Records.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.
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John Singleton
John Daniel Singleton (born January 6, 1968) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing Boyz n the Hood (1991).
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Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover (born December 30, 1962 in Berkeley, California) is a professor at the University of California Davis.
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Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor.
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Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange (born Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer and the editor of WikiLeaks.
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Jungle music
Jungle is a genre of electronic music derived from breakbeat hardcore that developed in England in the early 1990s as part of UK rave scenes.
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Justine Frischmann
Justine Elinor Frischmann (born 16 September 1969) is an English artist and musician.
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Kala (album)
Kala is the second studio album by English-Sri Lankan recording artist M.I.A., released on 8 August 2007 by XL Recordings.
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Kala Tour
The Kala Tour is a 2007 global M.I.A. concert tour performed in support of her studio album Kala (see 2007 in music).
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Kali Arulpragasam
Kali Arulpragasam is a jewelry designer and artist based in London, UK.
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Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), Artnet.
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KEXP-FM
KEXP-FM (90.3 FM) is a public radio station based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in alternative and indie rock programmed by its disc jockeys.
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Kimmie Weeks
Kimmie Weeks (born December 6, 1981) is a Liberian human rights activist.
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Kiran Gandhi
Kiran Gandhi (born 1989) is an electronic music producer, drummer, artist and activist.
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Kitty Empire
Kitty Empire is the pen name of a British writer and music critic, currently writing for The Observer.
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Krist Novoselic
Krist Anthony Novoselic (Krist Novoselić; often referred to as Chris Novoselic, born May 16, 1965) is an American musician and political activist, and was the bassist and founding member of the grunge band Nirvana alongside electric guitarist and lead singer Kurt Cobain, with Dave Grohl as the drummer.
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Kuduro
Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance originally developed in Angola in the 1980s.
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
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LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002.
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Lehman family
The Lehman family is a prominent family of Jewish German-American businesspeople who founded the financial firm Lehman Brothers.
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (translit, translit, commonly known as the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organization that was based in northeastern Sri Lanka.
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Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
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Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper (née Allen; born 2 May 1985), known professionally as Lily Allen, is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and television presenter.
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List of Asian Academy Award winners and nominees
This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees who have Asian ancestry.
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List of Asian folk music traditions
This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics.
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Live instrumentation
In music, live instrumentation is the use of acoustic and electronic musical instruments in live music and recording rather than DJing, sampling, and other recording techniques.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London Posse
London Posse was an early and influential English rap group in the English rap scene.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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Lou Reed
Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter.
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Luella Bartley
Luella Dayrell Bartley MBE (born 1974) is an English fashion designer, magazine editor and former journalist based in the UK.
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Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.
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Malayala Manorama
Malayala Manorama is a morning newspaper, in Malayalam language, published from Kottayam, Kerala, India by Malayala Manorama Company Limited, Headed by Mammen Mathew.It was first published as a weekly on 22 March 1890, and currently has a readership of over 20 million (with a circulation base of over 2.1 million copies).
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Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way.
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Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs (born April 9, 1963) is an American fashion designer.
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Matangi (album)
Matangi is the fourth studio album by English-Sri Lankan recording artist M.I.A., released on 1 November 2013 on her own label, N.E.E.T. Recordings, through Interscope Records.
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Maya (M.I.A. album)
Maya (stylised as ΛΛ Λ Y Λ) is the third studio album by English-Sri Lankan recording artist M.I.A., released on 7 July 2010 on her own label, N.E.E.T. Recordings, through XL Recordings and Interscope Records.
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Maya Tour
The Maya Tour (stylized as /\/\ /\ Y /\ Tour) is a 2010 global M.I.A. concert tour performed in support of her third studio album Maya (see 2010 in music).
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Mýa
Mýa Marie Harrison (born October 10, 1979) is an American recording artist, songwriter, and actress.
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MC Shan
Shawn Moltke (born September 6, 1965) better known by his stage name MC Shan, is an American hip hop and R&B recording artist.
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MDNA (album)
MDNA is the twelfth studio album by American singer Madonna, released on March 23, 2012, by Interscope Records.
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Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act.
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Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.
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Mexicans
Mexicans (mexicanos) are the people of the United Mexican States, a multiethnic country in North America.
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Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.
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Mia (singer)
Vilija Pilibaitytė (born 19 July 1983), better known by her stage name Mia, is a Lithuanian singer, songwriter, and television host.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
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Miranda Sawyer
Miranda Sawyer (born 1967) is an English journalist and broadcaster.
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Missing in action
Missing in action (MIA) is a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains, combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during wartime or ceasefire.
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Missy Elliott
Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971), better known as Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, is an American rapper, singer, dancer and record producer.
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Mitcham, London
Mitcham is a district in south west London, located within the London Borough of Merton.
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Mixtape
The term "mixtape" (alternatively spelled mix-tape or mix tape) is used to describe various manners in which music is distributed.
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MOBO Awards
The MOBO Awards stands for "Music of Black Origin" and was established in 1996 by Kanya King and Andy Ruffell.
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Mother Jones (magazine)
Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a progressive American magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative reporting on topics including politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.
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MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.
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MTV Europe Music Award
An MTV Europe Music Award (commonly abbreviated as a EMAs) is an award presented by Viacom International Media Networks to honour artists and music in pop culture.
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MTV Movie & TV Awards
The MTV Movie & TV Awards (formerly known as the MTV Movie Awards) is a film and television awards show presented annually on MTV.
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MTV Video Music Award
An MTV Video Music Award (commonly abbreviated as a VMA) is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.
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Multimedia
Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.
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Multitrack recording
Multitrack recording (MTR)—also known as multitracking, double tracking, or tracking—is a method of sound recording developed in 1955 that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources or of sound sources recorded at different times to create a cohesive whole.
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Museum of Pop Culture
The Museum of Pop Culture, or MoPOP (earlier called EMP Museum) is a nonprofit museum dedicated to contemporary popular culture.
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Music Canada
Music Canada (formerly Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA)) is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, promote and distribute music in Canada.
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Music sequencer
A music sequencer (or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control (OSC), and possibly audio and automation data for DAWs and plug-ins.
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Myspace
Myspace (stylized as MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.
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N.E.E.T. Recordings
N.E.E.T. Recordings is a vanity record label of Sri Lankan English hip hop recording artist M.I.A. as an imprint of Interscope Records in 2008.
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Nas
Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), better known by his stage name Nas, is an American rapper, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.
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NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal, Inc. is an American multinational media conglomerate owned by Comcast, headquartered at Rockefeller Plaza's Comcast Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Neda Ulaby
Neda Ulaby (ندى علبي, born 1970) is an American reporter for National Public Radio, covering arts, cultural trends and digital media.
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New rave
New rave is a genre of music described by The Guardian as "an in-yer-face, DIY disco riposte to the sensitive indie rock touted by bands like Bloc Party.". It is most commonly applied to a British-based music scene between 2005 and late 2008 of fast-paced electronica-influenced indie music that celebrated the late 1980s Madchester and rave scenes through the use of neon colours and using the term 'raving' to refer to going nightclubbing.
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New wave music
New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.
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New York (magazine)
New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.
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New York Observer
Observer is an online newspaper originating in New York City.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Nicki Minaj
Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian-born American rapper, singer, songwriter, model, and actress.
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Nigerians
Nigerians or Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria.
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Nightclub
A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.
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Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.
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NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
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North Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
The North Eastern Province was one of the provinces of Sri Lanka.
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Northern Province, Sri Lanka
The Northern Province (வட மாகாணம் Vaṭa Mākāṇam; උතුරු පළාත Uturu Paḷāta) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country.
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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Nylon (magazine)
Nylon is an American multi-platform media company and defunct magazine that focus on pop culture and fashion.
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O... Saya
"O...
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Official Charts Company
The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.
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Offshore bank
An offshore bank is a bank regulated under international banking license (often called offshore license), which usually prohibits the bank from establishing any business activities in the jurisdiction of establishment.
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Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
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Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio.
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
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Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.
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P.O.W.A.
"P.O.W.A" (pronounced "power") is a song by British musician M.I.A., released on 8 February 2017 by Interscope Records.
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Pablove Foundation
The Pablove Foundation is a US pediatric cancer nonprofit organization founded by Jo Ann Thrailkill and Jeff Castelaz.
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Palestine Liberation Organization
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية) is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle, with much of its violence aimed at Israeli civilians.
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Palestinians
The Palestinian people (الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinians (الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn, פָלַסְטִינִים) or Palestinian Arabs (العربي الفلسطيني, al-'arabi il-filastini), are an ethnonational group comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries, including Jews and Samaritans, and who today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab.
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Paper (magazine)
Paper, stylized as PAPER, is a New York City-based independent magazine focusing on fashion, popular culture, nightlife, music, art and film.
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Paper Planes
"Paper Planes" is a song by British rapper M.I.A. from her second studio album, Kala (2007).
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Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, commonly known as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris SG, or simply PSG, is a French professional football club based in the city of Paris.
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
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Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American dancer, choreographer, singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Peaches (musician)
Merrill Beth Nisker (born 11 November 1966), better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist.
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People (magazine)
People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Meredith Corporation.
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People vs. Money Tour
The People vs.
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Peter Lang (publisher)
Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences.
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Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.
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Piracy Funds Terrorism
Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1, usually referred to simply as Piracy Funds Terrorism, is a mixtape produced by British-Sri Lankan recording artist M.I.A. and American DJ Diplo featuring vocal tracks intended for M.I.A.'s debut album Arular mashed up with samples of other recordings.
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Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.
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Pixies
The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Polity (publisher)
Polity is a publisher in the social sciences and humanities.
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Polow da Don
Jamal Fincher Jones, professionally known as Polow da Don, is an American record producer, songwriter and rapper.
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Polydor Records
Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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PopMatters
PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.
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Portobello Road
Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London.
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Presidency of George W. Bush
The presidency of George W. Bush began at noon EST on January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush was inaugurated as 43rd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2009.
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President of Liberia
The President of the Republic of Liberia is the head of state and government of Liberia.
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Protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War
Between 2008 and 2009, major protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War, often referred to as the Tamil protests by news media, took place in several countries across the world, urging national and world leaders and organisations to take action on bringing a unanimous cease fire to the Sri Lankan Civil War, which had taken place for over twenty-five years.
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Pseudonym
A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).
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Public Enemy (band)
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group.
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Public housing in the United Kingdom
Public housing in the United Kingdom provided the majority of rented accommodation in the country until 2011.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Q (radio show)
Q (styled q) is a Canadian arts magazine show produced by and airing on CBC Radio One, with syndication to public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio International.
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Rankin (photographer)
John Rankin Waddell (born 1966), also known under his working name Rankin, is a British portrait and fashion photographer and director.
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Rap-Up
Rap-Up is a magazine launched in 2001 by founder Devin Lazerine.
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Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.
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Rave
A rave (from the verb: to rave) is an organized dance party at a nightclub, outdoor festival, warehouse, or other private property typically featuring performances by DJs, playing a seamless flow of electronic dance music.
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Real Time with Bill Maher
Real Time with Bill Maher is a talk show that airs weekly on HBO, hosted by comedian and political satirist Bill Maher.
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Realism (arts)
Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.
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Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.
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Recording Industry Association of America certification
In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.
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Refugee
A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely (for more detail see legal definition).
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
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Rhode Island College
Rhode Island College (RIC) is a public, coeducational college in Providence, Rhode Island, founded in 1854, it is the second oldest college in Rhode Island, after Brown University.
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Ricards Lodge High School
Ricards Lodge High School is a single sex comprehensive secondary school for girls aged 11 to 16, located on Lake Road in Wimbledon, London.
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Richard Russell (XL Recordings)
Richard Russell (born March 18, 1971) is an English record producer and the owner of British record label XL Recordings.
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Rob Sheffield
Rob Sheffield (born February 2, 1966) is an American music journalist and author.
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Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.
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Roc Nation
Roc Nation, LLC is an American entertainment company founded by Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter in 2008.
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Rodopi (publisher)
Rodopi, founded in 1966 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is an academic publishing company with offices in the Netherlands and the United States.
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Roland MC-505
The Roland MC-505 is a groovebox conceived in 1998 as a combination of a MIDI controller, a music sequencer and a drum machine, and also has some of the prime features of synthesizers: arpeggiator, oscillators, voltage-controlled filter, control of attack, decay, sustain and release.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.
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Romain Gavras
Romain Gavras (born 4 July 1981 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek-born French director, best known overseas for directing M.I.A.'s controversial video for "Born Free".
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Roots Manuva
Rodney Hylton Smith, better known by his stage name Roots Manuva (born 9 September 1972), is an English rapper and producer.
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Roskilde Festival
The Roskilde Festival is a Danish music festival held annually south of Roskilde.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949.
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Rue89
Rue89 is a French news website started by former journalists from the newspaper Libération.
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RWD Magazine
RWD Magazine (also known as RWD or RWDmag) is a British based magazine which features Music, Style, Sport, Gaming, Film, Technology, News, interviews and charts on hip hop, Grime, Dubstep, RnB, UK garage, Drum and bass and U.S. house music.
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Rye Rye
Ryeisha Berrain (born November 25, 1990), known by her stage name Rye Rye, is an American rapper, singer, dancer and actress.
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Sandinista National Liberation Front
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a democratic socialist political party in Nicaragua.
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Sasha Frere-Jones
Sasha Frere-Jones (born Alexander Roger Wallace Jones in 1967) is an American writer, music critic, and musician.
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Sean Bell shooting incident
Sean Bell was shot in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, United States, on November 25, 2006.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.
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Seattle Weekly
The Seattle Weekly is a freely distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Sebastian (French musician)
Sebastian Akchoté, better known as just Sebastian (sometimes stylized as SebastiAn), is a French musician and DJ affiliated with Ed Banger Records.
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Sexual assault
Sexual assault is an act in which a person coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.
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Shock Value (album)
Shock Value is the second solo album, and fifth album overall, by record producer and rapper Timbaland.
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Silver Bullet (rapper)
Silver Bullet (born Richard David Brown, 12 September 1972 in London, England) is a British rapper.
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Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist, critic, and author.
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.
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Sleigh Bells (band)
Sleigh Bells is an American noise pop musical duo based in Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2008.
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Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson.
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Soca music
Soca music (also defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the "Soul Of Calypso") is a genre of music that originated within a marginalized subculture in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s, and developed into a range of styles by the 1980s and later.
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Solo exhibition
A solo show or solo exhibition is an exhibition of the work of only one artist.
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Sound of Kuduro
"Sound of Kuduro" is a kuduro song by Buraka Som Sistema featuring DJ Znobia, M.I.A., Saborosa and Puto Prata, from their album Black Diamond released in 2008.
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South India
South India is the area encompassing the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry, occupying 19% of India's area.
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Space (M.I.A. song)
"Space" is a song by British recording artist M.I.A. from her third studio album, Maya (2010).
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Spike Jonze
Adam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze (pronounced "Jones"), is an American filmmaker, photographer, and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television.
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Spin (magazine)
Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.
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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation.
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Sri Lanka and state terrorism
The Sri Lankan state has been accused of state terrorism against the Tamil minority as well as the Sinhalese majority.
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Sri Lanka Army
The Sri Lankan Army (Śrī Laṃkā yuddha hamudāva; Ilankai iraṇuvam) is the oldest and largest of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and is the nation's army.
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Sri Lankan Civil War
The Sri Lankan Civil War was an armed conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism
Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism is the conviction of the Sri Lankan Tamil people, a minority ethnic group in the South Asian island country of Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon), that they have the right to constitute an independent or autonomous political community.
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Sri Lankan Tamils
Sri Lankan Tamils (also) or Ceylon Tamils, also known as Eelam Tamils in Tamil, are members of the Tamil ethnic group native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka.
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Standard score
In statistics, the standard score is the signed number of standard deviations by which the value of an observation or data point differs from the mean value of what is being observed or measured.
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Stanford University Press
The Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.
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Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, and television host.
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Stereogum
Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, song premieres, and irreverent commentary.
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Stylus Magazine
Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002.
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Subaltern (postcolonialism)
In critical theory and postcolonialism, the term subaltern designates the populations which are socially, politically, and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.
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SuicideGirls
SuicideGirls is an online community based website that revolves around pin-up photography sets of models known as the Suicide Girls.
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Summer Sonic Festival
The Summer Sonic Festival is an annual two or three-day rock festival held at the same time in Osaka and Chiba.
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Sunshowers
"Sunshowers" is a song by British musician M.I.A. from her critically acclaimed debut album Arular.
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Super Bowl XLVI
Super Bowl XLVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2011 season.
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Surkin
Benoit Heitz (born 1985), known by his stage name Surkin, is a French house/Electro house DJ and producer.
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Switch (house DJ)
David James Andrew Taylor, better known his stage name Switch, is an English DJ, songwriter, sound engineer, and record producer.
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Swizz Beatz
Kasseem Dean (born September 13, 1978), better known by his stage name Swizz Beatz, is an American hip hop rapper, DJ and record producer from New York City, New York.
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Swords (M.I.A. song)
"Swords" is a song by British recording artist M.I.A..
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Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema is Indian motion pictures produced in the Tamil language.
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Tamil Guardian
Tamil Guardian is an online, English language news site based in London.
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.
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Tamil nationalism
Tamil nationalism asserts that Tamils are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Tamil people.
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TamilNet
TamilNet is a news website that provides news and feature articles on current affairs in Sri Lanka, specifically related to the erstwhile Sri Lankan Civil War.
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Tamils
The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar, Tamilans, or simply Tamils, are a Dravidian ethnic group who speak Tamil as their mother tongue and trace their ancestry to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union territory of Puducherry, or the Northern, Eastern Province and Puttalam District of Sri Lanka.
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Tape recorder
An audio tape recorder, tape deck, or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage.
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Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley (born September 13, 1964) is an American talk show host and author.
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The Cataracs
The Cataracs were an American hip hop record production project and duo formed in Berkeley, California, United States, consisting of David Benjamin Singer-Vine (born 9 March 1988) and Niles Hollowell-Dhar (born 6 October 1988).
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The Clash
The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.
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The Colbert Report
The Colbert Report is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005 to December 18, 2014 for 1,447 episodes.
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The Cookbook
The Cookbook is the sixth studio album by American rapper Missy Elliott, released by The Goldmind Inc. and Elektra Records on August 27, 2005 in the United States.
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The Fader
The Fader (stylized as The FADER) is a NYC-based music magazine launched in 1999 by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen, covering music, style and culture.
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The finger
In Western culture, the finger or the middle finger (as in giving someone the (middle) finger or the bird or flipping someone off) is an obscene hand gesture.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Menace (album)
The Menace is the second and final studio album by English alternative rock group Elastica, released via Deceptive Records in April 2000.
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The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.
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The Partysquad
The Partysquad is a Dutch DJ production team.
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The Phoenix (newspaper)
The Phoenix (stylized as The Phœnix) was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the Portland Phoenix and the now-defunct Boston Phoenix, Providence Phoenix and Worcester Phoenix.
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The Progressive
The Progressive is an American monthly magazine of politics, culture and progressivism with a pronounced liberal perspective.
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The Slits
The Slits were a British punk rock band formed in London in 1976 by members of the groups The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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The Week (Indian magazine)
The Week is an Indian news magazine founded in the year 1982 and is published by The Malayala Manorama Co.
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The Weeknd
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born 16 February 1990), known by his stage name The Weeknd (pronounced as the weekend), is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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Third World
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc.
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Timbaland
Timothy Zachary Mosley (born March 10, 1972), better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American record producer, rapper, singer, songwriter and DJ.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Time 100
Time 100 (often written in all-caps as TIME 100) is an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world assembled by the American news magazine Time.
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Time Out (magazine)
Time Out is a British travel magazine published by Time Out Group.
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Time Out Group
Time Out Group is a British media company which is publisher of magazines and travel guidebooks covering events, entertainment and culture in cities around the world.
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Tooting
Tooting is a district of South London, England, forming part of the Wandsworth borough.
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Toronto
Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.
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Total (Sebastian album)
Total is the debut studio album by French electronic artist SebastiAn.
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Travel visa
A visa (from the Latin charta visa, meaning "paper which has been seen") is a conditional authorization granted by a country to a foreigner, allowing them to enter, remain within, or to leave that country.
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Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist.
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Ultramagnetic MCs
The Ultramagnetic MCs is an American hip hop group based in Bronx, New York.
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Ultratop
Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium.
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Unemployment
Unemployment is the situation of actively looking for employment but not being currently employed.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United Kingdom general election, 2017
The 2017 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 8 June, having been announced just under two months earlier by Prime Minister Theresa May on 18 April 2017 after it was discussed at cabinet.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.
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Urumi (drum)
The urumi (also known as urumee) is a double-headed hourglass-shaped drum from the state of Tamil Nadu, South India.
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USA Today
USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.
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Vanni (Sri Lanka)
The Vanni, also spelled Wanni, is the name given to the mainland area of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.
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Vassar College
Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States.
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VBS.tv
VBS.tv was an online television network owned by Vice Media, and later absorbed into VICE.com.
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Vevo
Vevo (an abbreviation for 'video evolution') is an American multinational video hosting service founded on December 8, 2009, as a joint venture between three major record companies, Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and EMI.
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Vibe (magazine)
Vibe is an American music and entertainment magazine founded by producer Quincy Jones.
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Vice (magazine)
Vice is a Canadian-American print magazine focused on arts, culture, and news topics.
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Vicki Leekx
Vicki Leekx is a mixtape by British recording artist M.I.A. which was released on 31 December 2010.
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Vimeo
Vimeo is a video-sharing website in which users can upload, share and view videos.
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Virgin EMI Records
Virgin EMI Records is a British record label owned by the Universal Music Group that was formed in 2013.
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Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine covering many topics including fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway.
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War crime
A war crime is an act that constitutes a serious violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility.
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Watermelon
Citrullus lanatus is a plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from Africa.
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Weighted arithmetic mean
The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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West London (sub-region)
West London is an official sub-region of Greater London; consisting of the London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames West London had a gross value added of £34.4bn in 2007, around 20% of the gross value added of Greater London.
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Whistleblower
A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress.
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WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources.
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Wimbledon, London
Wimbledon WIMBLESON is a district of southwest London, England, south-west of the centre of London at Charing Cross, in the London Borough of Merton, south of Wandsworth, northeast of New Malden, northwest of Mitcham, west of Streatham and north of Sutton.
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Wireless microphone
A wireless microphone is a microphone without a physical cable connecting it directly to the sound recording or amplifying equipment with which it is associated.
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Woolwich
Woolwich is a district of south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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World music
World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.
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World Soundtrack Academy
The World Soundtrack Academy (WSA, or World Soundtrack Awards), launched in 2001 by the Film Fest Gent, is aimed at organizing and overseeing the educational, cultural and professional aspects of the art of film music, including the preservation of the history of the soundtrack and its worldwide promotion.
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World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film
The World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film is one of the three main prizes given by the World Soundtrack Academy to honour the best movie soundtracks.
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World Tomorrow
World Tomorrow, or The Julian Assange Show, is a 2012 television program series of 26-minute political interviews hosted by WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange.
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X-Ray Spex
X-Ray Spex were an English punk band from London that formed in 1976.
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XL Recordings
XL Recordings is a British independent record label founded in 1989 by Richard Russell, Tim Palmer and Nick Halkes.
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XXXO
"XXXO" is a song by English recording artist M.I.A., released as the lead single from her third studio album, Maya (2010).
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
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Yo Yo Honey Singh
Hirdesh Singh (born 15 March 1983), better known by his stage name Yo Yo Honey Singh or Honey Singh, is an Indian music producer, Indi-pop singer and film actor.
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Youth Action International
Youth Action International (YAI) Youth Action International, or YAI, is an international nonprofit working to rebuild war-torn African communities, founded by youth activist Kimmie Weeks, a survivor of the Liberian Civil War.
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Youth worker
A Youth worker is a person that works with young people to engage them in informal education.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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Zayn Malik
Zain Javadd "Zayn" Malik (زین جواد ملک; born 12 January 1993), recording mononymously as Zayn, is an English singer and songwriter.
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12-inch single
The 12-inch single (often simply called 12″) is a type of gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time compared to typical LPs.
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2009 Brit Awards
The 2009 Brit Awards ceremony took place on Wednesday 18 February 2009.
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2011 England riots
The 2011 England riots occurred between 6 and 11 August 2011, when thousands of people rioted in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England.
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27 Club
The 27 Club is a list of popular musicians, artists, or actors who died at age twenty-seven.
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81st Academy Awards
The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2008 and took place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._(rapper)