Genres

hillbilly music

country music originating in mountainous regions of southern United States

 

legend

a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

 

Christmas carol

joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ

 

Gregorian chant

a variety of plainsong named after Pope Gregory I

 

sidebar

a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story

 

Western

a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development

 

soul

a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s

 

paper

a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses

 

funk

an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

 

jazz

a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

 

talkie

a movie with synchronized speech and singing

 

love story

a story dealing with love

 

Pilgrim's Progress

an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678

 

synthetism

a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas

 

musical theater

a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing

 

melodrama

an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization

 

Dies Irae

the first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally `day of wrath')

 

film noir

a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters

 

silents

a movie without a soundtrack

 

folk music

the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community