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Musical Imperialism

Everyone knows that guy/girl who always comes to your party and stealthily plugs in their own iPod between songs. You were bumping old school Outkast, but now you have to settle for "She Wolf" by Shakira. You shrug it off because you're winning at pong at the moment, but let's be honest, that's musical imperialism.
Josey: Hey, man, I really like this country playlist. It's totally appropriate for the setting and provides a really good vibe....wait, who the fuck just put on Ludacris?

Hal: It's Ashley. She's always stealing the stereo.

Josey: Dude! That's musical imperialism at its worst right there.
by Pablo el Diablo September 10, 2011
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musically diverse

a person who listens to multiple genres of music from different time periods and eras
"Jake listens to Kanye West and then listens to Beethoven, he's so musically diverse."
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High School Musicaling

(v.) the act of strutting around randomly, often times in another person's house, dancing and singing to the high school musical soundtrack. (often not very good.)
Riley went to Carina's house, who had put on the sound track from the movie, and they were high school musicaling all day.

Riley almost lost her limbs from high school musicaling.
by Avid Actress May 25, 2011
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Musicaly

dude nobody cares about musicaly
by Idontknowmyname sorry June 11, 2018
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Zac Efraud from Bitch School Musical

Hate term for the star of High School Musical: Zac Efron from High School Musical. Used by people over 10 years old. See: Zac Efraud, Bitch School Musical Zac Efron from Bitch School Musical, Zac Efraud from High School Musical.
Zac Efraud from Bitch School Musical: WERE ALL FUCKING TOGETHER!!!!!!!

Me: *changes channel* why the fuck was I on disney in the first place?
by Fuck Bitch School Gayical. August 23, 2009
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We Will Rock You the musical

a musical based on the songs by the legendary rock band Queen. often shortened to WWRY.

The time is the future, in a place that was once called Earth. Globalisation is complete!

Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts.

It's a safe, happy, Ga Ga world. Unless you're a rebel. Unless you want to Rock. On Planet Mall all musical instruments are banned. The Company Computers generate the tunes and everybody downloads them. It is an age of Boy Bands and of Girl Bands. Of Boy and Girl Bands. Of Girl Bands with a couple of boys in them that look like girls anyway. Nothing is left to chance, hits are scheduled years in advance.

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

But Resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when the kids formed their own bands and wrote their own songs. They call that time, The Rhapsody.

Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from stone.

Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man?

He’s just a poor boy. From a poor family

But the Ga Ga Cops are also looking for Galileo and if they get him first they will surely drag him before the Killer Queen and consign him to oblivion across the Seven Seas of Rye.

Who is Galileo? Where is the Hairy One's lost axe?

Where is the place of living rock?

Anywhere the wind blows
We Will Rock You the musical will be amazing when Kaitlyn Mason directs it.
by twinkle-twinkle-little-STAR November 9, 2006
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Jazz musician

Jazz musicians are those people who play any form of jazz, in its many forms, including bossa nova, samba, Latin, fusion and even funk.

Typical instruments found in jazz groups include brass instruments such as the saxophone, trumpet, French horn and cornet, woodwind instrument such as the clarinet, flute, oboe and bassoon, and string instruments which include bass and 6-stringed guitars, double bass, cello, violin and viola. Jazz vocalists can also be found in some bands. Instrument selection is usually the personal choice of the band leader or director.

Jazz is a very old genre and it is often assumed that only 'old' musicians play jazz music now. However this is not the case, with younger musicians including Victor Wooten of Bela and the Flecktones and the solo pianist Jamie Cullum continuing to both freshen the jazz scene and add to it.

Jazz musicians have some of the most versatile skills in music, including the ability to sight-read (see a previously unknown piece of music and play it within a single reading), improvise (come up with completely original music for the chord changes given), ear-play and know music theory. It is for this reason some of the best jazz players are very well-paid, and learning jazz technique and theory will often allow for learning other genres easily.
Examples of famous jazz musicians include Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Mark King, Miles Davis, Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa.

I am a jazz musician. I play jazz bass.
by BassPlayer42 August 22, 2011
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