Brazil's rodeo boom is part of a broader explosion of interest in what is known here as "country style".
Early cracks in the edifice appeared in the 1990s, during the Mexican and Asian financial crises, but the bigger, broader explosion of 2007 revealed a badly overextended world economy, which led to bailouts.
Some of the most memorable, though, tackle broader themes, like the explosion of classical music study in China or the ways technology affects music, with an impressive but never showy blend of historical reportage and thoughtful analysis.
Part of the broader triumph of identity politics, the explosion of God talk represents an abandonment of the liberal faith that, before entering the public square, all citizens should set aside the aspects of their identities that are not susceptible to debate.
We could expect to see an explosion of creativity and a broader field of prospective trend setters, more free to draw inspiration faster from wider social and aesthetic trends and designs.
In the 80s, pop was the main attraction – it was a genre so broad and vibrant, musically and aesthetically, a sparkling explosion of hooks and looks in the age of the music video, of unreality TV.
That proved an adroit acquisition, considering the explosion of the Internet opened up a broad new market for sending photos via e-mail and broadcasting live video online.
But Mr. Dabhoiwala, fellow scholars say, is among the first to synthesize the explosion of often highly specialized studies that followed into a broad argument about the centrality of sex to the British Enlightenment.
This transformation corresponds to broader cultural shifts, such as the trend towards managerialism and the explosion of hard and soft law.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, in its recent report, has noted an "explosion of new extremist groups and activism" fueled by "broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America".
