Sentence examples for prevailing music from inspiring English sources

And no wonder: for while she at least has the "retro" part well covered, V.V. Brown would probably struggle to fit in with the prevailing music fashions of any recent pop era.

You lay out the ground rules for creating a music "scene": the right venue to suit the music; an audience that is alienated from the prevailing music culture; cheap drinks.

In 1968, in a long piece on Godard in Partisan Review, Sontag wrote that the director's "approach to established rules of film technique like the unobtrusive cut, consistency of point of view, and clear story line is comparable to Schoenberg's repudiation of the tonal language prevailing in music around 1910".

It is interesting how both haters and defenders often try to link hip-hop -- the prevailing popular-music form of the late 20th and early 21st century -- to older black music.

And, then as now, there was reflexive talk of real music prevailing, righteously.

By inclination and design, Timberlake is positioned apart from the prevailing trends in music, fashion, sensibility.

It also enabled her to operate outside the prevailing fashions of the music scene, her creations not reliant upon obvious musical precedents, but ranging freely across the sonic landscape.

Their eclecticism has always saved the Maccabees from being pigeonholed into any of guitar music's prevailing trends.

But to portray mild-mannered performers like Mr. Cook and Mr. Archuleta, even humorously, as enemies plays into the prevailing ethos of pop music as a gladiatorial sporting event.

But Missy Elliott has not only avoided the prevailing stereotypes of the music-video industry; she has spent the last few months bringing the industry around to her style of dance, costume, and song.

In the 1960s, classical musicians turned away from the prevailing Romantic interpretations of baroque music in favour of historical accuracy.