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Adobe Flash | Adobe Flash is a multimedia software platform used for production of animations, rich web applications, desktop applications, mobile apps, mobile games, and embedded web browser video players. Flash displays text, vector graphics, and raster graphics to provide animations, video games, and applications. It allowed streaming of audio and video, and can capture mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera input. Artists may produce Flash graphics and animations using Adobe Animate (formerly known as Adobe Flash Professional). |
adult contemporary | Adult contemporary music (AC) is a style of music ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day with varying degrees of easy listening soul rhythm and blues and rock influence. |
alternative rock | The 'alternative' definition refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream rock music expressed primarily in a distorted guitar sound transgressive lyrics and generally a nonchalant defiant attitude. |
American folk | American folk music is a musical term that encompasses numerous genres many of which are known as traditional music traditional folk music contemporary folk music or roots music. Roots music is a broad category of music including bluegrass country music gospel old time music jug bands Appalachian folk blues Cajun and Native American music. |
AO | The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II Queen of Australia to recognise Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service. |
Appalachian | Appalachian music is the traditional music of the region of Appalachia in the Eastern United States. It is derived from various European and African influences including English ballads Irish and Scottish traditional music (especially fiddle music) hymns and African-American blues. |
apprenticeship | Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). |
art rock | Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the 1960s with influences from art (avant-garde and classical) music. |
assigned sex | Sex assignment (sometimes known as gender assignment) is the discernment of the sex at the birth of a baby. |
bachelor's degree | A bachelor's degree is usually earned for an undergraduate course of study that normally requires three to five years of study (depending on institution and field of study). |
banda | Bandas are most widely known for their rancheras but they also play modern Mexican pop rock and cumbias. Most Banda music is very clearly a dialect of polka and will seem familiar and appealing to fans of polka or traditional German and Polish music. |
baroque pop | Baroque pop baroque rock or English baroque often used interchangeably with chamber pop/rock is a pop rock music subgenre which originated in the United States and United Kingdom. It emerged in the mid-1960s as a fusion of pop rock and classical music particularly of the baroque period. |
big band | A big band is a type of musical ensemble that originated in the United States and is associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm brass and woodwind instruments totaling approximately 12 to 25 musicians. The terms jazz band jazz ensemble jazz orchestra stage band society band and dance band may describe this type of ensemble in particular contexts. |
Billboard (magazine) | Billboard maintains several internationally recognized record charts which track the most popular songs and albums across several categories on a weekly basis. |
blue-eyed soul | Blue-eyed soul (also known as white soul) is rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists. The term was first used in the mid-1960s to describe white artists who performed soul and R&B that was similar to the music of the Motown and Stax record labels. The somewhat controversial term was coined during racial segregation in 1960s America at the time of the music genre's emergence in popular music culture. |
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