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Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi

Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi (مشتاق احمد یوسفی; 1923–2018) was a Pakistani Urdu humorist and satirist whose five books made him a leading Urdu humorist of his era.

Mushtaq Khan

Mushtaq Khan (1969-2026), Indian Hindi-film character actor and comedian, died 24 September 2026 in Mumbai. Known as Ballu in Welcome, Rafoo Master in Aashiqui, and for Gadar, Hera Pheri; discovered via Salim Khan's tip to Mahesh Bhatt for Kabzaa (1988).

Mushthaidi Garden

Mushthaidi Garden (Mushtaid Garden, მუშთაიდის ბაღი) is a historic 1830s park in Tbilisi, Georgia, founded by the Persian mujtahid Mir-Fatah-Agha, home to the world's first children's railway (1935), the State Silk Museum, and Transcaucasia's first hot-air balloon ascent (1882).

Mushu

Mushu is a small red Chinese dragon who serves as the comic guardian sidekick of Fa Mulan in Disney's animated film Mulan (1998), voiced by Eddie Murphy.

Musibat-nama

Musibat-nama (مصیبت‌نامه, "Book of Affliction") is a Persian mystical mathnawi by the Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar of Nishapur, in which a wayfarer seeks relief through forty encounters, and it is Attar's longest poem.

Music

Music: organized sound in pitch and rhythm, found in all known societies. Covers competing definitions, philosophy of music, musicology and comparative musicology, and the streaming-dominated recorded music economy, including generative AI's impact.

Music (2021 film)

Music (2021) is Sia's directorial debut, a musical drama starring Kate Hudson, Maddie Ziegler, and Leslie Odom Jr. about a woman caring for her autistic half-sister; it earned two Golden Globe nominations but was widely criticized for its portrayal of autism.

Music (app)

Music is Apple's media application and the client for the Apple Music streaming service, available across Apple devices, Windows, and Android, and replacing iTunes on the Mac in 2019.

Music (Madonna album)

Music (2000) is Madonna's eighth studio album, produced mainly with French producer Mirwais Ahmadzai on Maverick/Warner Bros. It was her first US No. 1 album since Like a Prayer, 2x Platinum, with the title track her 12th Hot 100 No. 1.

Music (Madonna song)

"Music" is a 2000 electropop and dance-pop single by Madonna, written and produced with Mirwais Ahmadzai for the Warner Bros. album Music. It became her twelfth chart-topper, earned Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy nominations, and is known for its vocodered "Do you like to boogie-woogie?" hook.

Music & Me

Music & Me refers to two studio albums: Michael Jackson's third solo Motown album (April 13, 1973, peaked #92 Billboard 200, 10 tracks) and Nate Dogg's Elektra G-Funk album (December 4, 2001, 14 songs, guests Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg).

Music and emotion

Music and emotion: interdisciplinary field studying how music expresses and induces emotion. Key ideas: Meyer's 1956 expectation theory, Juslin's BRECVEMAC mechanisms, reward-circuit chills, cross-cultural psychophysical cues.

Music and Lyrics

Music and Lyrics is a 2007 American romantic comedy directed by Marc Lawrence. It stars Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore as a pop singer and a plant-watering woman.

Music and mathematics

Music and mathematics: the long-studied relationship linking tuning ratios (1:2 octave, 2:3 fifth), the Pythagorean comma, 12-tone equal temperament, Fourier sound analysis, group-theoretic music theory, and math-based composition.

Music award

Music award: prizes recognizing achievement in music, given by peer academies (Grammys), juries (Eurovision, Pulitzer), or fan voting. Covers voting systems, history since the 1959 first Grammys, and adjudication bias.

Music awards in the Americas

Music awards in the Americas are national and regional programs recognizing popular, classical, and traditional music, ranging from peer-voted academies like the Latin Recording Academy to fan-voted Premios Juventud.

Music Bank (music)

Music Bank (뮤직뱅크) is a weekly live music television program broadcast by KBS2 from Seoul since 1998, ranking songs on the K-Chart and touring internationally through the Music Bank World Tour.

Music box

Music box (musical box): mechanical instrument, invented by Antoine Favre in Geneva in 1796, that plays tunes from a pinned cylinder or stamped disc plucking a tuned steel comb; Swiss golden age 1875–1896, disc variant 1885, Japanese name orugoru.

Music Box (film)

Music Box is a 1989 American drama film directed by Costa-Gavras and starring Jessica Lange, whose character defends her Hungarian immigrant father against Nazi war crimes charges.

Music Box (Mariah Carey album)

Music Box (1993) is Mariah Carey's third studio album, released by Columbia Records on August 31, 1993. Produced with Walter Afanasieff and others, it spawned "Dreamlover" and "Hero", topped the Billboard 200, and became her first RIAA Diamond album.

Music Business Association

Music Business Association (Music Biz), formerly NARM (founded 1958), is a Nashville-based non-profit music trade association that merged with digitalmusic.org, represents 400+ companies across music commerce, and runs the annual Music Biz Conference, Bizzy Awards, scholarships, and a mental health fund.

Music by John Williams

Music by John Williams (2024) is a Disney+ feature documentary about composer John Williams, directed by Laurent Bouzereau and produced by Lucasfilm, Amblin, and Imagine; it centers on his Spielberg partnership and career retrospective.

Music Canada

Music Canada (formerly Canadian Recording Industry Association, renamed 2011) is the Toronto-based trade association of Canada's major record labels, founded 1964, administering the Gold & Platinum certification program since 1975.

Music Choice

Music Choice is an American cable-originated digital music service offering hundreds of ad-free, DJ-free channels curated by human programmers, free with most cable packages or $3.99/month standalone, competing mainly with Stingray.

MUSIC CIRCUS DANCE MUSIC FESTIVAL

MUSIC CIRCUS (ミュージックサーカス) is a dance music festival born in Osaka, Japan, first held during Golden Week 2014 and billed as Kansai's largest indoor dance music festival.

Music City Loop

Music City Loop is a privately funded underground transit project by The Boring Company, announced in 2025, using Tesla vehicles to link downtown Nashville with Nashville International Airport.

Music Complete

Music Complete (2015) is a New Order studio album on Mute, their first without Peter Hook and first with Gillian Gilbert since 2001; guests include Iggy Pop and Brandon Flowers; Metascore 76.

Music Director Anandji (Kalyanji-Anandji)

Anandji Virji Shah, born 1933 in Gujarat, is an Indian music director, the younger half of the Kalyanji-Anandji duo that scored over 250 films including Don.

Music education

Music education is the teaching and learning of music across schools, conservatories, and informal settings, with contested cognitive-transfer evidence, national plans (England 2022, NSW 2026), and equity and AI-driven developments.

Music Encoding Initiative

The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is a community-driven, open-source effort defining an XML schema for encoding music notation documents, introduced in the early 2000s and co-hosted in Mainz and Bern.