revivalist
noun
re·viv·al·ist
ri-ˈvī-və-list 
-ˈvīv-list
1
: one who conducts religious revivals
specifically
: a member of the clergy who travels about to conduct revivals
2
: one who revives or restores something disused
revivalist
adjective
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Most producers settle in and stop evolving at some point, developing a recognizable sound, but Jones was never one to get stuck in the past and dismissed as a revivalist, which helps explain why he was involved with Number One singles in three different decades.
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Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
His grandfather ran a Hindu martial arts training center, called an akhara, while his grandmother was the local head of the women’s wing of Arya Samaj, a Hindu revivalist movement that started in 1875 and has converted thousands of Christians and Muslims to Hinduism.
—Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020
Screamin’ Scott Simon, the dynamic keyboard player for rock and roll revivalists Sha Na Na for more than 50 years, has died.
—Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
Future Islands These Baltimore synth-pop revivalists have one of modern music’s most distinctive vocalists in Samuel T. Herring, who enunciates like David Bowie with a diction coach.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2024
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Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
His grandfather ran a Hindu martial arts training center, called an akhara, while his grandmother was the local head of the women’s wing of Arya Samaj, a Hindu revivalist movement that started in 1875 and has converted thousands of Christians and Muslims to Hinduism.
—Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020
Screamin’ Scott Simon, the dynamic keyboard player for rock and roll revivalists Sha Na Na for more than 50 years, has died.
—Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
Future Islands These Baltimore synth-pop revivalists have one of modern music’s most distinctive vocalists in Samuel T. Herring, who enunciates like David Bowie with a diction coach.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2024
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revivalist
noun
re·viv·al·ist
ri-ˈvīv-(ə-)ləst
: one who conducts revivals
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