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
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