The Book of Amos contains several different key activities and genres which are used to expound upon its themes.

Best known for his play Ubu Roi ( 1896 ), which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles.

It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared.

After the Second World War, factories were retrofitted to produce Bakelite using a more efficient extrusion process which increased production and enabled the uses of Bakelite to extend into other genres: jewelry boxes, desk sets, clocks, radios, game pieces like chessmen, poker chips, billiard balls and Mah Jong sets.

In order to underscore this, Chaosium produced the Worlds of Wonder supplement, which contained the generic rules and several specific applications of those rules to given genres.

The series covered genres which included comedy, detective caper and action thriller.

The clavichord has also gained attention in other genres of music, in the form of the clavinet, which is essentially an electric clavichord which uses a magnetic pickup to provide a signal for amplification.

In genres such as tango, which use a lot of bowed passages and jazz-style pizzicato lines.

The music and dance forms of the African diaspora, including African American music and many Caribbean genres like soca, calypso and Zouk ; and Latin American music genres like the samba, rumba, salsa ; and other clave ( rhythm )- based genres, were founded to varying degrees on the music of African slaves, which has in turn influenced African popular music.

Film noir similarly embraces a variety of genres, from the gangster film to the police procedural to the gothic romance to the social problem picture — any example of which from the 1940s and 1950s, now seen as noir's classical era, was likely to be described as a " melodrama " at the time.

Many labels expected New York freestyle and Miami freestyle to have the same audience and thought that the same promotional strategy would work for both genres, which often led to poor results for the New York – based freestyle.

* Fusion ( music ), a music genre which combines two or more other genres

No other genres so actively invite representations of the ultimate goals of feminism: worlds free of sexism, worlds in which women's contributions ( to science ) are recognized and valued, worlds in which the diversity of women's desire and sexuality, and worlds that move beyond gender.

It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared.

Besides the basic distinction in genre between fiction and documentary ( from which hybrid forms emerged founding a new genre, docufiction ), film genres can be categorized in several ways.

Writers such as Giorgio Vasari followed public opinion in judging the best painters above all on their production of large canvases of history painting, and artists continued for centuries to strive to make their reputation by producing such works, often neglecting genres to which their talents were better suited.

High fantasy has become one of the two genres most commonly associated with the general term fantasy, the other being sword and sorcery, which is typified by the works of Robert E. Howard.

The term jazz guitar may refer to either a type of guitar or to the variety of guitar playing styles used in the various genres which are commonly termed " jazz ".

In the music realm, this can be heard with many different genres, like reggae, ( which later led to dancehall ), rap / hip-hop, reggaeton, and Latin rap.

A theme which has been especially popular with metal bands of different genres and styles is the Viking invasion of AD 793.

There are musical genres and styles specific to each Celtic country, due in part to the influence of individual song traditions and the characteristics of specific languages:

These continual borrowings from other genres and cultural products create a familiar access point for a western audience and must in some part explain Cowboy Bebop ’ s popularity.

Unlike in other European countries of the time, the nobility in Bohemia was not a part of the literary audience and thus this split of literary effort led to a certain lack of development and stagnation of Czech baroque literature in comparison to other European countries of the time, especially in genres that were written for noble courts.

Many writers better known in other genres like Elmore Leonard, Leigh Brackett, and Larry McMurtry have also written Western novels The genre's popularity peaked in the 1960s, due in part to the end of many pulp magazines, the popularity of televised Westerns, and the rise of the spy novel.

Nueva canción has become part of the Latin American and Iberian musical canon but is no longer a mainstream genre, and has given way to other genres, particularly Rock en español.

For the most part of the century mostly ignored by mainstream literary criticism, these genres develop their own establishments and critical awards, such as the Nebula Award ( since 1965 ), the British Fantasy Award ( since 1971 ) or the Mythopoeic Awards ( since 1971 ).

Calling indie rock part of " Alternative Rock " is not correct since it has little to do with the production values, message, and history of that genre ( in the early 2000s, Alternative Rock acts in their attempt to regain mainstream status competed in the charts against Indie Rock acts actively ), yet a significant number of indie rock bands refuse to align to other mainstream genres that generally fail to describe them at all.

Together with the lineage charts and the koan-collections it became a central part of the literary genres sustaining the Traditional Zen Narrative, portraying excentric shouting teachers beating their students, uttering incomprehensible koans.

Blues and jazz were part of the same musical world, with many accomplished musicians straddling both genres.

Finnish music: Finland's folk styles include a variety of national genres and ballads, while the traditional rhyming sleigh songs rekilaulu have become an integral part of many pop singers.

This technique ( commonly called ' bending ') is often used by electric guitarists of all genres and is a very important part of sitar playing.

In the period just before Indian independence ( Bengal, under British rule, was a part of one massive India that does not exactly correspond to the India of current day ), several new minor musical genres emerged, mainly in the form of playback songs for movies.

The first composer to write a separate contrabassoon part in a symphony was Beethoven, in his Fifth Symphony ( 1808 ), although Bach, Handel ( in his Music for the Royal Fireworks ), Haydn, and Mozart occasionally used it in other genres.

The " realistic " approach of Verismo extends to the music: the score of a Verismo opera is for the most part continuous and is not divided into separate " numbers " that can be excised easily and performed in concert excerpts ( as is the case with the operatic genres that preceded Verismo ).

The city of Boston is an especially large part of the state's present music scene, which includes several genres of rock, as well as classical, folk, and hip hop music.

Ethnic music has influenced and developed into modern folk music, and American musical genres such as gospel music, blues and jazz also are part of the state's musical fabric.

A wide array of performers, from a variety of music genres, took part in raising proceeds.

A rather different art developed out of northern realist traditions in 17th century Dutch Golden Age painting, which had very little religious art, and little history painting, instead playing a crucial part in developing secular genres such as still life, genre paintings of everyday scenes, and landscape painting.

The Neapolitan song, canzone Napoletana, and the cantautori singer-songwriter traditions are also popular domestic styles that form an important part of the Italian music industry, alongside imported genres like jazz, rock and hip hop.

But for the most part the relative prices obtainable for the different genres ensured the hierarchy of size also ; it would not have been economic to paint a very large subject from the lower genres, except for commissioned group portraits.

According to the Fringe Society there were 258 venues in 2011, although over 80 of them housed events or exhibitions, which are not part of the main performing art genres that the Fringe is generally known for.

At the same time some genres were forbidden ( particularly Christian church-songs ), and the tendency to create huge regional choirs with big groups singing each melodic part damaged the improvisatory nature of Georgian folk music.

The 2000s also saw various ' phases ' for genres which had a brief period of heightened popularity ; this included electroclash ( early part of the decade ), crunk, screamo, dubstep, chill out ( early part of decade ) and snap ( latter half of decade ).