Genres
- legend
- a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
- martial music
- brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade
- soul
- a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
- folk ballad
- a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
- tragicomedy
- a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
- Hare Krishna
- a chant to the Hindu god Krishna
- 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
- landscape painting
- a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
- bop
- an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- zydeco
- music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues
- chinoiserie
- a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned
- collage film
- a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage
- cinema verite
- a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director
- chant
- a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
- agony column
- a newspaper column devoted to personal problems
- three-D
- a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance
- article
- nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
- swing music
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- symphonic music
- a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra
- modernism
- genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
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