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open course ware | OpenCourseWare (OCW) are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the Internet. |
old time | Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music with roots in the folk music of various cultures of Ireland Britain Africa and Continental Europe. It developed along with various North American folk dances such as square dancing flatfoot dancing buck dancing and clogging. The genre also encompasses ballads and other types of folk songs. It is played on acoustic instruments generally centering on a combination of fiddle and plucked string instruments (most often the guitar and banjo). |
nu-disco | Nu-disco or nu-house is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with a renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco early to mid-1980s Italo disco and boogie and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco and P-Funk aesthetics. |
note | The term note can be used in both generic and specific senses: one might say either 'the piece 'Happy Birthday to You' begins with two notes having the same pitch ' or 'the piece begins with two repetitions of the same note.' In the former case one uses note to refer to a specific musical event; in the latter one uses the term to refer to a class of events sharing the same pitch. |
norteño | Norteño (Spanish pronunciation: [norˈteɲo] northern) also musìca norteña is a genre of Mexican music. The accordion and the bajo sexto are norteño's most characteristic instruments. |
nonviolent | Nonviolent acts of protest and persuasion are symbolic actions performed by a group of people to show their support or disapproval of something. The goal of this kind of action is to bring public awareness to an issue persuade or influence a particular group of people or to facilitate future nonviolent action. |
Nobel Peace Prize | The Nobel Peace Prize 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. Since 1901 it has been awarded annually to those who have 'done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses'. |
new wave | New wave music is an umbrella term for several late-1970s to mid-1980s pop/rock musical styles with ties to 1970s punk rock. |
new jack swing | The sound of new jack swing comes from the hip hop 'swing' beats created by drum machine and hardware samplers which was popular during the golden age of hip hop with contemporary R&B style singing. |
neo soul | Heavily based in soul music neo soul is distinguished by a less conventional sound than its contemporary R&B counterpart with incorporated elements ranging from jazz funk and hip hop to pop fusion and African music. |
Native American music | Native American music is the music that is used created or performed by Native Americans in the United States and First Nations people of Canada specifically traditional tribal music. In addition to the traditional music of the Native American groups there now exist pan-tribal and inter-tribal genres as well as distinct Native American subgenres of popular music including: rock blues hip hop classical film music and reggae as well as unique popular styles like waila ('chicken scratch'). |
National Recording Registry | The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that 'are culturally historically or aesthetically important and/or inform or reflect life in the United States. |
Nation of Islam | The Nation of Islam (NOI) is an Islamic religious movement founded in Detroit Michigan by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4 1930. The Nation of Islam's stated goals are to improve the spiritual mental social and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity. |
Muslim Mosque Inc. | Muslim Mosque Inc. (MMI) was an Islamic organization formed by Malcolm X after he left the Nation of Islam. MMI was a relatively small group that collapsed after its founder was assassinated. |
musical symbols | Modern musical symbols are the marks and symbols used in modern musical notations of Western musical scores styles and instruments in order to describe pitch rhythm tempo – and to some degree its articulation (e.g. a composition in its fundamentals). |
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