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111toys and games — Most young children are given toys for their birthday or at Christmas. Many regularly spend their pocket money or allowance on smaller toys. Toys that have always been popular include building bricks such as Lego, plastic farm animals, toy cars,… …
112Listening to the Music of the World — ▪ 1998 Introduction by Chris Heim World Music What Is It? The dawning of a new musical global village or an unfocused, unsuccessful marketing ploy? The revitalization of time honoured cultural traditions or cynical pop exploitation and New… …
113Murray, Arthur — ▪ American dancing instructor byname of Arthur Murray Teichman born April 4, 1895, New York, N.Y., U.S. died March 3, 1991, Honolulu, Hawaii American ballroom dancing (ballroom dance) instructor and entrepreneur who established a… …
114Falun gong — Sectarian religion As China ‘marketized’ its economy, opened to the outside world, and revised its national constitution in the interval between 1980 and 1986, there were several ‘fevers’ (re) or popular cultural enthusiasms that possessed urban… …
115Qigong, history — In the 1980s and 1990s, traditional breathing, gymnastic and meditation techniques were highly popular in China, in what was described by media chroniclers as ‘Qigong fever’ (Qigong re, see crazes). At its peak, the Qigong or ‘breath training’… …
116socio-political values — China’s transition from a Stalinist to a ‘socialist market economy’ has greatly impacted the Chinese socio political values. Since the 1980s, China has been seized by a series of crazes: from ‘knowledge’, ‘diploma’, ‘college’ and ‘going abroad’,… …
117Go-go dancing — Not to be confused with Go go, an unrelated musical genre. Go go dancers at an open air bar in Patong Beach, Thailand Go go dancers are dancers who are employed to entertain crowds at a discotheque.[1] Go go dancing originated in the early 1960s …
118Countdown (Beyoncé Knowles song) — Countdown Single by Beyoncé from the album 4 Released Octob …
119Wave (audience) — Stadium crowd performing the wave at the Confederations Cup 2005 in Frankfurt The wave (North American) or the Mexican wave (outside North America) is an example of metachronal rhythm achieved in a packed stadium when successive groups of… …
120Michael Rooney — Michael Joseph Rooney (born 2 April 1962) is an American choreographer, best known for his work on a number of music videos. He has won MTV Video Music Awards for best choreography for the videos to both Bjork s It s Oh So Quiet and Fat Boy Slim… …
