Genres

reggae

popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar

 

fado

a sad Portuguese folksong

 

paean

(ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)

 

Pilgrim's Progress

an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678

 

hymn

a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)

 

rockabilly

a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat

 

skin flick

a pornographic movie

 

trad

traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s

 

C and W

a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments

 

Dies Irae

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

 

synthetism

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

 

nonfictional prose

prose writing that is not fictional

 

cantata

a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text

 

folk art

genre of art of unknown origin that reflects traditional values of a society

 

interior monologue

a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue

 

R and B

a combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' roll

 

detective story

a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution

 

final cut

the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer

 

cinema verite

a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director

 

murder mystery

a narrative about a murder and how the murderer is discovered