Counting a Muslim day of prayer that begins before the convention starts and a conservative country music concert and rally that starts a day after President Obama is expected to accept the nomination on Sept. 6, the numbers of people showing up to protest in Charlotte will most likely be in the tens of thousands.
The heyday of the charge of elitism was the anti-establishment 1960's, and the easiest target was classical music, with its gilded concert halls, conservative dress codes and enshrined masterpieces by dead white males.
In much of the West, classical concerts are placid, conservative affairs; the Budapest Festival Orchestra has become a site of independent, even radical, thought.
The campaign could create complications for G.M.'s Chevrolet brand, which makes S.U.V.'s like the TrailBlazer and has been courting religious conservatives by sponsoring a Christian concert series.
In the last two years authorities have tried to alter the curriculum to be more conservative, canceling programs such as concerts, plays and even student-run philosophy discussion groups. .
During a show planned for February 13 in Malaysia, Malaysia's conservative Islamic party recommended that Rihanna's concert tour be banned from performing, citing her outfits.
March 9 2014 For thousands of baby boomers, a concert by this veteran pianist, conservative in content and in style, is a cultural touchstone.
Frank rarely mentions Democratic lobbyists or interest groups and glosses over the complexity in the coalitions that form the two parties: "corporations" and "conservatives" seem always to operate in perfect concert, on the Republican side.
Layton worked in concert with the new administration of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper on several projects, notably advising Harper on the drafting of an official apology for the treatment of indigenous peoples in residential schools in the late 19th century.
The vmPFC and insular cortex may operate in concert to implement these naturally occurring conservative biases, and lesions to this system appear to disengage these biases, resulting in risk-taking behaviour.
