Genres
- prose
- ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
- blues
- a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- sidebar
- a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story
- fado
- a sad Portuguese folksong
- dance music
- a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing
- cantus firmus
- a pre-existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition; originally drawn from plainchant, but later drawn from other sources
- nonfictional prose
- prose writing that is not fictional
- skin flick
- a pornographic movie
- 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
- bebop
- an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- jazz
- a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
- euphuism
- an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
- telefilm
- a movie that is made to be shown on television
- think piece
- an article in a newspaper or magazine or journal that represents opinions and ideas and discussion rather than bare facts
- 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
- column
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- coming attraction
- a movie that is advertised to draw customers
- hillbilly music
- country music originating in mountainous regions of southern United States
- thriller
- a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
- postmodernism
- genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
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