negritude
(en)
(noun) a consciousness of and pride in the cultural and physical aspects of the African heritage / (noun) the state or condition of being black
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And but you can feel this false 'perspective,' these lambent, tourist-bringing-his-own-water attitudes Elvis got boycotted in the 50s for promoting lewdness and negritude.
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And but you can feel this false 'perspective,' these lambent, tourist-bringing-his-own-water attitudes Elvis got boycotted in the 50s for promoting lewdness and negritude.
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Kekulian
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(adj) relating to German organic chemist Friedrich August Kekulé, who discovered the structure of benzene in an Friedrich ouroboros-themed dream
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ostinato
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(noun) a musical figure repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a composition (from Italian)
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repeated over and over in a near-parodic ostinato
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repeated over and over in a near-parodic ostinato
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contrapuntal
(en)
of or in counterpoint
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cognoscenti
(en)
(noun) a person who has expert knowledge in a subject; connoisseur
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special appeal to a cognoscenti of B-boys
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special appeal to a cognoscenti of B-boys
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jeremiad
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(noun) a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes
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prosody
(en)
(noun) the study of versification / (noun) the systematic study of metrical structure / (noun) a particular system, theory, or style of versification / (noun) the rhythmic and intonational aspect of language
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the prosody itself rooted in the urban black tradition
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the prosody itself rooted in the urban black tradition
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lugubrious
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(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful / (adjective) dismal
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bloated love doll, lugubrious, and eyelash-batting
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bloated love doll, lugubrious, and eyelash-batting
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diachronic
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, or dealing with phenomena (as of language or culture) as they occur or change over a period of time
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hagiography
(en)
relating to the writing of the lives of saints; (derogatory) adulatory writing about another person
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a general hagiography of the rapper and his crew
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a general hagiography of the rapper and his crew
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