Sentence examples for vernacular roots from inspiring English sources

Mr. Pascoal has expanded the palette of Brazilian vernacular roots music and jazz harmony to include the sounds of animals and traffic.

Except for two artists whose vernacular roots are obvious — Gajin Fujita, a Los Angeles ex-graffiti writer who created the show's hip-hoppish logo, and Darryl (Mutt Mutt) Montana, a Louisianan who makes ferociously gorgeous Mardi Gras costumes — the show conceals its demographic spread.

The contemporary state of the Russian language is characterized by the abundance of borrowings (predominantly from English) and lack of verbal creativity on the basis of vernacular roots.

His composition drew from an American vernacular rooted in African-American music.

Maybe it was the jazz soundtrack, but in those trim, short-jacketed suits, in light-to-dark shades of gray, I kept seeing a vernacular style rooted in the 1950s.

Cities bloomed; universities were founded; Gothic cathedrals rose; vernacular literatures took root; trade exploded.

The closing concert of the enterprising Riverside Symphony's 29th season, on Wednesday evening at Alice Tully Hall, was a thematic program that pulled together 20th-century works with roots in American vernacular music.

It's Now or Never was an ornately orchestrated rewrite of the classic Neapolitan ballad O Sole Mio, an awfully long way from what purists believed to be his roots in the vernacular music of dirt-poor Tennessee.

In his 2010 Éloge des frontières (In Praise of Borders), he understood that unlike the universalizing reason behind globalization, culture is rooted in the vernacular wellspring of emotional attachment and belonging.

At his best, Winton writes with an unsentimental lyricism that remains rooted in the Australian vernacular; rough, choked dialogue clashing against passages of great beauty.

Neither bop nor free but a deft synthesis of the two; confidently rooted in the black vernacular but elegantly urbane; often sardonic but always serious: Mr. Moncur's Blue Note period prefigured the work of Greg Osby, Jason Moran and other young jazz musicians who have mined the materials of African-American music with tart, edgy sophistication.