In the miasma of boys with guitars they were the only band who were mining a wealth of influences often overlooked by the keepers of rock music's "canon" - Blondie, the Ronettes, the Human League, Pulp, John Cooper Clarke and the B-52s - to name just a few.
The advantage of global convergence is access to a wealth of cultural influence; its downside, some critics posit, is the threat of cultural imperialism, defined by Herbert Schiller as the way developing countries are "attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating system.
What has changed is the now commonplace recognition, imparted in media studies and even in high-school English classes, that there's no such thing as neutral storytelling, and that every artistic composition, every visual representation, entails and embodies a wealth of ideological influences and prejudices which makes filmmakers want to stake out their positions clearly.
New insights, new regulations, new technologies, different allocations of tasks, revised professional standards, different forms of cooperation, new procedures and a wealth of other influences lead constantly to changes that affect the quality of care.
Allegedly an opponent of the avant-garde, he drew on twelve-tone rows, partly improvised structures, and a wealth of non-Western influences.
He has lately used guitarists in his band, to good effect; here he features Lionel Loueke, who brings a wealth of his own cultural influences to the table.
Last, but just as easily first, at Joan B. Mirviss there's a labor-of-love scholarly show, "Birds of Dawn: Pioneers of Japan's Sodeisha Ceramic Movement," documenting a modernist movement that began in Japan after World War II and incorporated a wealth of international avant-garde influences while staying grounded in native tradition (39 East 78th Street, through April 29).
There is a wealth of literature on factors that influence motivation and engagement.
Whereas a wealth of evidence indicates a positive influence from semantic factors on episodic retention of verbal and visual information (Larsson 1997; Murphy et al. 1991), the observations are mixed regarding the relationship between odor recognition and semantic factors (e.g., familiarity, identifiability).
Credited as being one of the first "dramedies", Moonlighting was a seminal influence on a wealth of subsequent shows: Psych, Castle, Veronica Mars, Northern Exposure, Glee, to name just a few.
They provide a wealth of resources for those trying to influence human behavior in beneficial ways.
