• Alternating (disambiguation)

Genres of music

• Alternative rock
  Alternative rock
  Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
  
  
• Alternative metal
  Alternative metal
  Alternative metal is a genre of alternative rock and heavy metal that gained popularity in the early 1990s. Most notably, alternative metal bands are characterized by heavy guitar riffs and experimental approaches to heavy music.-Origins:...
  
  
• Alternative hip hop
  Alternative hip hop
  Alternative hip hop is a sub-genre of hip hop music. Allmusic defines it as follows: -Origin:...
  
  
• Alternative country
  Alternative country
  Alternative country is a loosely defined sub-genre of country music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream or pop country music...
  
  
• Alternative dance
  Alternative dance
  Alternative dance or indie dance is a musical genre that mixes rock subgenres with electronic dance music...
  
  
• Alternative bouyon
  Bouyon music
  Bouyon is a form of popular music of Dominica which became popular in the late 1980s. The term Bouyon means something akin to "gumbo soup" in the local creole of Dominica...
  
  

Mathematics and science

• Alternative algebra
  Alternative algebra
  In abstract algebra, an alternative algebra is an algebra in which multiplication need not be associative, only alternative. That is, one must have*x = y*x = y...
  
  , an abstract algebra with alternative multiplication
• Alternate leaves, a classification in botanical phyllotaxis
  Phyllotaxis
  In botany, phyllotaxis or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem .- Pattern structure :...
  
  

Finance

• Alternative investment
  Alternative investment
  An alternative investment is an investment product other than the traditional investments of stocks, bonds, cash, or property. The term is a relatively loose one and includes tangible assets such as art, wine, antiques, coins, or stamps and some financial assets such as commodities, private equity,...
  
  , investment other than stocks, bond (finance), money funds, and cash

Education

• Alternative education
  Alternative education
  Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, includes a number of approaches to teaching and learning other than mainstream or traditional education. Educational alternatives are often rooted in various philosophies that are fundamentally different...
  
  , non-traditional education
• Alternative school
  Alternative school
  Alternative school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides part of alternative education. It is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional...
  
  , a school geared towards students whose needs cannot be met in a traditional school

Culture and society

• Alternative comics
  Alternative comics
  Alternative comics defines a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to "mainstream" superhero comics which in the past have dominated the US comic book industry...
  
  , a genre of comic strips and books
• Alternative comedy
  Alternative comedy
  Alternative comedy is a term that originated in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era, and typically avoids relying on a standardised structure of a sequence of jokes with punch lines. Patton Oswalt defines it as "comedy where the...
  
  , a range of styles used by comedians and writers in the 1980s
• Alternative culture
  Alternative culture
  Alternative culture is a type of culture that exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures...
  
  , a variety of subcultures existing along the fringes of mainstream culture
• Alternative dispute resolution
  Alternative dispute resolution
  Alternative Dispute Resolution includes dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation. ADR basically is an alternative to a formal court hearing or litigation...
  
  , processes and techniques outside the traditional mainstream of jurisprudence
• Alternative fashion
  Alternative fashion
  Alternative fashion is an umbrella term encompassing a plethora of styles that have one major thing in common - they, at least at one time, stood apart from mainstream commercial fashion. The term has long been associated with the fashions of specific subcultures , however it is not limited to this...
  
  , for example Gothic fashion, Punk fashion, Fetish fashion
• Alternative lifestyle
  Alternative lifestyle
  An alternative lifestyle is a lifestyle generally perceived to be outside the cultural norm. Usually, but not always, it implies an affinity or identification within some matching subculture...
  
  , a lifestyle that it is not within the cultural norm
• Alternative media
  Alternative media
  Alternative media are media which provide alternative information to the mainstream media in a given context, whether the mainstream media are commercial, publicly supported, or government-owned...
  
  , media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication
• Alternative medicine
  Alternative medicine
  Alternative medicine is any healing practice, "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine." It is based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence....
  
  , healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine
• Alternative (Kamen Rider), a character in the Japanese TV series, Kamen Rider Ryuki
• Alternative
  Alternative (album)
  Alternative is the ninth album by UK electronic music duo Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1995.Alternative is a 2-disc set, consisting of 30 B-sides in chronological order...
  
  , an album by Pet Shop Boys
• The Alternative (album)
  The Alternative (album)
  * Lyrics on Tracks 3 and 5 co-written by Sue Denim* Lyrics on Track 8 co-written by Igor Vdovin* Lyrics on Tracks 4, 5 and 10 co-written by Ian Pickering* Lyrics on Tracks 5 and 10 co-written by Liam Howe- Trivia :...
  
  , an album by IAMX