Independent

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Independent or Independents may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Artist groups

  • Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s
  • Independents (Oporto artist group), a Portuguese artist group historically linked to abstract art and to Fernando Lanhas, the central figure of Portuguese abstractionism

Music

Groups, labels, and genres

  • Independent music, a number of genres associated with independent labels
  • Independent record label, a record label not associated with a major label
  • Independent Albums, American albums chart

Albums

  • Independent (Ai album), 2012
  • Independent (Faze album), 2006
  • Independent (Sacred Reich album), 1993

Songs

  • "Independent" (song), a 2007 song by Webbie
  • "Independent", a 2002 song by Ayumi Hamasaki from H

News and media organizations

  • The Independent, a British online newspaper.
  • The Malta Independent, a Maltese newspaper and online newspaper
  • Independent Online (South Africa), a news and information website based in South Africa, owned by Sekunjalo Investments since 2013
  • Independent News & Media, the largest publisher of print material in South Africa and owner of Independent Online until 2013
  • Independent Media Center (also known as Indymedia or IMC), an open publishing network of journalist collectives that report on political and social issues, e.g., in The Indypendent newspaper of NYC
  • ITV (TV network) (Independent Television), a British television channel

Periodicals

  • Grand Island Independent, a newspaper published in Grand Island, Nebraska
  • Indy Week, formerly known as the Independent Weekly and originally the North Carolina Independent
  • Irish Independent, newspaper
  • Long Beach Independent, a morning edition newspaper published in Long Beach, California
  • Marshall Independent, a daily newspaper published in Marshall, Minnesota
  • San Francisco Independent, formerly the largest non-daily U.S. newspaper
  • Santa Barbara Independent, a news, arts, and alternative newspaper published every Thursday in Santa Barbara, California, United States

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Independents (film), a 2008 American documentary
  • Independent bookstore, bookstore that is not part of a chain
  • Independent film, film produced by a small movie studio
  • Independent media, media that is free of influence by government or corporate interests
  • Independent publisher, small press not associated with a major publisher
  • Independent radio, radio stations independent of government or conglomerate interference
  • Independent sources, in journalism, two or more sources which attest to a given piece of information
  • Independent station, television or radio station that is not affiliated with any network

Mathematics and statistics

  • Dependent and independent variables, the argument of a mathematical function
  • Independent, in Independence (probability theory), a variable whose occurrence does not affect the probability of occurrence of another
  • Independence (mathematical logic), unprovability of a sentence (e.g. the Parallel postulate) from other sentences (e.g. the remaining Euclidean geometry axioms)

Military

Politics

Religion

  • Independent (religion), name for supporters of a disestablished Protestant church during the English Civil War, closely identified with support for the English Commonwealth, of which Oliver Cromwell is best known
  • Independent church, or non-denominational church, a church unaffiliated with a denominational organization
  • Union of Welsh Independents, Congregationlist denomination in Wales

Sports

  • Independent circuit, professional wrestling shows not associated with the major wrestling promotions

In U.S. college sports, schools that are not members of an NCAA or NAIA athletic conference, including:

Other uses

See also

  • Independence (disambiguation)
  • Independent Township (disambiguation)
  • Independente (disambiguation)
  • Indie (disambiguation)
  • Independent music, artistic creations outside the commercial mainstream
  • Systems theory
  • L'Indépendant (disambiguation)
  • The Independent (disambiguation)
  • The Independents (disambiguation)
  • The Indypendent, a newspaper of the New York City Independent Media Center
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