Genres
- hot jazz
- jazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation
- article
- nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
- peepshow
- a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth
- stream of consciousness
- a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
- paean
- (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)
- short story
- a prose narrative shorter than a novel
- adventure story
- a story of an adventure
- epos
- a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme
- nonfictional prose
- prose writing that is not fictional
- chant
- a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone
- modernism
- genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
- musical
- a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing
- rock-and-roll
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
- genre painting
- a genre depicting everyday life
- skin flick
- a pornographic movie
- rap music
- genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
- magic realism
- a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative or meticulously realistic painting are combined with surreal elements of fantasy or dreams
- silent picture
- a movie without a soundtrack
- progressive rock
- a style of rock music that emerged in the 1970s; associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms; intended for listening and not dancing
- primitivism
- a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children
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