revivalist

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Tapping that frustration, Al-Houthi’s older brother, Hussein, launched a revivalist movement that called for driving out Western influences and supporting Palestinians.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

It spreads organically through social networks, social media – notably podcasts and livestreams – and revivalist meetings and workshops.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2025

But it remains visible on a nearby billboard, advertising studio tours at Paramount, showing a young couple holding hands as they walk toward the historic Spanish colonial revivalist archway.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023

Mering is something of a Laurel Canyon revivalist, though Weyes Blood doesn’t traffic in simple nostalgia.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Modal melodies, revivalist spirituals, the call-and-response or ‘holler’ songs of African slaves: all of these went into the mixing pot of the early Blues.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall