Mainstream (disambiguation)

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Mainstream may refer to any of the following:

• Mainstream (terminology): generally used to mean that which is ordinary or usual with familiar appeal to the masses.
• Mainstream media
• Mainstream Publishing, a Scottish publisher
• Mainstream Records, an American record label
• Mainstream (album), the first album by Quiet Sun
• Mainstream (band), a shoegazer band of the late 1990s
• Mainstream (fanzine), a Hugo award winning science fiction fanzine
• Mainstream, the second-highest charting single by Thea Gilmore.
• Mainstream, the self-titled first album by Mainstream (band)
• Mainstream, a song by Outkast off their 1996 ATLiens album.
• Mainstream, a book by Hamilton Basso in which he describes various Americans (Cotton Mather, John Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Carnegie, P.T. Barnum, Henry Brooks Adams, William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Huey P. Long, Franklin D. Roosevelt).

Mainstreaming refers to:

• Mainstreaming in education - The practice whereby efforts are made to teach children with special needs in ordinary schools.
• Gender mainstreaming - The process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action.
• Youth mainstreaming - The process of assessing the implications for young people of any planned action.