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This is a list of artists who create contemporary art i.e. those whose peak of activity can be situated somewhere between the 1970s (the advent of postmodernism) and the present […]

Quiet storm is a late-night radio format featuring soulful slow jams pioneered in the mid-1970s by then-station-intern Melvin Lindsey at WHUR-FM in Washington D.C. Smokey Robinson’s like-titled hit single A […]

A stacking window manager (also called floating window manager) is a window manager that draws all windows in a specific order allowing them to overlap using a technique called painter’s […]

Teen films is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers such as coming of age first […]

A personal firewall is an application which controls network traffic to and from a computer permitting or denying communications based on a security policy. Typically it works as an application […]

In computing a fixed-point number representation is a real data type for a number that has a fixed number of digits after (and sometimes also before) the radix point (after […]

Gagaku (雅楽 gagaku ancient imperial court music and dances lit. elegant music) is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial Court in Kyoto for […]

Dōjinshi (同人誌? often transliterated as doujinshi) is the Japanese term for self-published works usually magazines manga or novels. Dōjinshi are often the work of amateurs though some professional artists participate […]

Electro (short for either electro-funk or electro-boogie) is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 drum machines and funk sampling. Records in the genre […]

Noise rock describes a style of rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock but incorporates atonality and […]