revivalist

- Jazz ought to be revivalist, not innovative. Suffice to say, I don't think I can agree...

You remind me here of a revivalist inveighing against a heretic, and I'm not sure that is the most useful perspective from which to study the case. I mean, I don't know!

There seems to be a race towards the most exotic or revivalist programming languages. As if programming languages were magic bullets of some sort.

- Jazz ought to be revivalist, not innovative. Things like free-jazz is not innovative.

Or go wade through some late-19th-century occult revivalist texts and tell me those are literal. I also find the assertion that this practice ended rather dubious.

You'll see plenty of revivalist material on the web; many here in India hold it in high regard. In my view, its lasting significance has been the role in dividing India into castes.

Until then, C++/WinRT provides a revivalist experience for those that missed the opportunity to deal with bare bones IDL file editing alongside ATL.

Popular songs range over wildly different music styles, from Black Metal to Medieval folk revivalist music through RnB and Arabic belly dancing music. What examples will we train our AI songwriter on?

That said, there are three common contexts to "bringing up the wrongs of the past:" 1 - It's a counter to traditionalist/revivalist/restorationist sentiment and/or mythology. In this case, the myth is that all freedoms come from and are rooted in the infallible founding.

There's room out there too for grimoire traditionalists, cunning-man revivalists, catholic folk-magic, brujeria, santeria, pagan historical reconstructionists, and any number of other detailed traditions that aren't Wiccan. And that's fine too.