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Folk baroque is an influential British guitar fingerstyle that emerged in the 1960s, uniquely blending elements of American folk, blues, jazz, and ragtime with traditional British folk music to create an elaborate new accompaniment style. A defining characteristic is the innovative DADGAD tuning, which provides a versatile suspended-fo...

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) is a professional organisation launched in August 2011, dedicated to identifying, awarding, promoting, and celebrating Australia's finest achievements in film and television. Established with the backing of the Australian Film Institute (AFI), AACTA took over the administrati...

Ski ballet, also known as Acroski, was a captivating freestyle skiing discipline where athletes performed choreographed routines of spins, jumps, and flips on a smooth slope, set to music. Similar to figure skating, it was a prominent feature of professional freestyle skiing tours in the 1970s and 1980s, later gaining recognition as an...

Fashion merchandising is the strategic planning and promotion of products, ensuring they reach the right market at the optimal time through effective stock management and sales generation. This comprehensive field involves two key teams: visual merchandisers, who design compelling store layouts and displays to attract customers, and fa...

Poetry is a profound art form where language is meticulously used for its aesthetic qualities, acting as a vital outlet for human expression deeply intertwined with culture and considered a form of fine art. From its ancient origins as recited or sung oral history—exemplified by Sumerian priestess Enheduanna's hymns—poetry evolved into...

The Santa Fe Opera (SFO), an internationally renowned American opera company, was founded by conductor John Crosby in 1956 and is located just north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since its inaugural season in July 1957, SFO has earned a distinguished reputation for presenti...

Phantom Theater was a popular haunted dark ride at Kings Island, which opened on April 11, 1992, featuring a continuously moving vehicle system and immersive sets by R&R Creative Amusement Designs. This attraction continued a legacy of rides in the same building, replacing the Hanna-Barbera themed Enchanted Voyage (1972-1983) and S...

Opera buffa (Italian for "comic opera") is a genre that emerged in Naples during the early 18th century, offering a lighter, more accessible alternative to the serious opera seria. It featured everyday settings, local dialects, and simpler vocal writing, often depicting common people and their problems and dra...

Roman sculpture is famously linked to Greek art, often preserving renowned Greek works like the Apollo Belvedere through its own copies, yet it is now celebrated for its unique contributions. Its main strengths lie in powerful, character-driven portraiture—eschewing idealization for realism—and dynamic narrative relief scenes, with man...

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Contemporary Country was a popular 22-volume music series launched by Time-Life in the summer of 1991, dedicated to showcasing country music from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. Each volume, available on CD or cassette, offered 22 essential tracks along w...

The Forward Prizes for Poetry are prestigious British awards, founded in 1992 by William Sieghart, to celebrate poetic excellence and expand its audience. Presented annually at a public ceremony in London, they recognize outstanding poetry collections and single poems published in the UK and Ireland.

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Abstract Impressionism emerged in New York City during the 1940s, blending traditional Impressionist techniques, often applied to real-life subjects painted en plein air, with varying degrees of abstraction. The term was coined by painter and critic Elaine de Kooning in the 1950s and popularized by Louis Finkelstein, who used it to des...