cultural movement
- noun
- /ˈkʌltʃərəl ˈmuːvmənt/
- The cultural movement of the 1960s focused on civil rights and artistic expression.
- a new cultural movement
Examples
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Hip hop refers to the cultural movement among African American youth that is expressed through certain language, clothing, and way of life.
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Vincent and Miller had no expectation or intention that their training school would inspire a vast national cultural movement.
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The British also supported the new cultural movement in Egypt.
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Yet enough has been written and done to form the core of a promising intellectual and cultural movement.
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This music originated mainly in the Black and gay underground cultural movement of New York.
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Moreover, an important, though not the entire, theme of the cultural movement was to urge Taiwanese people to appreciate their Han Chinese traditions.
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To understand that dominance, we must view the ABCFM within the wider context of the New Divinity as a dynamic cultural movement.
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In his endeavors, he sympathized with Islam as a cultural movement and a national identity rather than as a program for Islamizing institutions.
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I argue that, although many evangelicals feel like an embattled minority, they are complicit in cultural movements that marginalize them.
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Cinema Novo, according to Thomas Elsaesser, was born from an urban cultural movement in the 1950s to create a "self-consciously nationalist cinema" in opposition to Hollywood's neo-imperial domination of the Brazilian film market.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
A group of people who work together for a common goal
A large group of people who work together to bring social or political change
How Influential
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a group effort promoting cultural values' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'cultural' (relating to a society's arts and customs) + 'movement' (a collective pursuing shared goals). This is a common and literal noun-noun/adj-noun combination found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand the MWE.
Etymology
Cultural movement comes from the picture of people coming together and moving to share new art and ideas: cultural means shared art and beliefs, and movement is a group that moves for a purpose. So it means people working together to 'change' or spread new cultural ideas.