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Encyclopedia - Camp Style: Encyclopedia - Camp Style
The term camp—normally used as an adjective, even though earliest recorded uses employed it mainly as a verb—refers to the deliberate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - China Cymbal: Encyclopedia - China Cymbal
In western music, china type cymbals are cymbals deliberately manufactured to have a "trashy" tone in some ways similar to a chau gong. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ride Cymbal: Encyclopedia Ii - Ride Cymbal - Terminology
According to most drummers, the term ride means to ride with the music as it sustains after it is struck. However it can apply to either ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roger The Alien: Encyclopedia Ii - Roger The Alien - Biological Oddities
Every seven hours, a green waste is ejected from his body, rather like Spewie, a goo-ejecting alien from Chris Elliott's controversial an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Effeminacy: Encyclopedia Ii - Effeminacy - History
Effeminacy - Etymology. Effeminacy comes from the Latin, ex which is "out" and femina which means woman; it basically means to be like ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Camp Style: Encyclopedia Ii - Camp Style - Examples Of Camp
Camp is best explained to those unfamiliar with the concept of camp through the use of examples. Television shows such as The Brady Bunch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Camp Style: Encyclopedia Ii - Camp Style - Academic Appropriation Or Proliferation Of Camp
While the success of postmodernism granted camp a place in mainstream art and literature analysis, as well as a certain weight in contemp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Effeminacy: Encyclopedia Ii - Effeminacy - Acceptance And Intolerance By Society
In most cultures, it was traditionally considered, if not a vice, at least a weakness, indicative of other negative character traits and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Camp Style: Encyclopedia Ii - Camp Style - Origins And Development
The OED gives 1909 as the first citation of "camp" in print, with the sense of "ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effemina...   » Read the article