Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

No reference is made to the possibility of recording other than popular music in this manner, and it would not seem to lend itself well to serious music.

A number of serious concerns about the technical abilities of the system came to light, many of which reached popular magazines such as Scientific American.

Since then, Japanese research in computer music has largely been carried out for commercial purposes in popular music, though some of the more serious Japanese musicians used large computer systems such as the Fairlight in the 1970s.

Other serious authors also produced clerihews, including W. H. Auden, and it remains a popular humorous form among other writers and the general public.

British public perception of the engagement was initially as a serious defeat, at a time when popular opinion expected great things from the Royal Navy.

The majority of films produced in the Federal Republic in the 1960s were genre works: westerns, especially the series of movies adapted from Karl May's popular genre novels which starred Pierre Brice as the Apache Winnetou and Lex Barker as his white blood brother Old Shatterhand ; thrillers and crime films, notably a series of Edgar Wallace movies in which Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Wolfgang Völz, and Joachim Fuchsberger were among the regular players ; and softcore sex films, both the relatively serious Aufklärungsfilme ( sex education films ) of Oswalt Kolle and such exploitation films as Schulmädchen-Report ( Schoolgirl Report ) ( 1970 ) and its successors.

Alex Soma's Horrors of the Screen, Calvin T. Beck's Journal of Frankenstein ( later Castle of Frankenstein ) and Gary Svehla ’ s Gore Creatures were the first horror fanzines created as more serious alternatives to the popular Forrest J Ackerman 1958 magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland.

In addition to serious explorations of the Soviet past and present situation relaxation of censorship resulted in an explosion of popular culture including popular Western literature and films and books on astrology, religion, and flying saucers, in short, anything official Soviet publishers had not deemed worth publishing.

Most serious was lack of unified popular support.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Close advisors Sen. Lewis Cass, a proponent of popular sovereignty as far back as 1848 as an alternative to the Wilmot Proviso, and Secretary of State William L. Marcy both told Pierce that repeal would create serious political problems.

Some of these were serious attempts at levels ( one even attempted to recreate a popular deathmatch level ( 1-5 ) from the videogame Doom ), and some were not ( like one where you played inside the popular videogame character Dopefish ).

Before King, many popular writers found their efforts to make their books serious blue-penciled by their editors.

Although he continued to be extremely popular and widely read, both at home and abroad, Scott's critical reputation declined in the last half of the nineteenth century as serious writers turned from romanticism to realism, and Scott began to be regarded as an author suitable for children.

" Sondheim then said of Babbitt, " I am his maverick, his one student who went into the popular arts with all his serious artillery.

Ralph A. Rossum, writing in the San Diego Law Review, notes that the debate over the amendment's adoption lacked " any serious or systematic considerations of its potential impact on federalism ... The popular press, the party platforms, the state memorials, the House and Senate debates, and the state legislative debates during ratification focused almost exclusively on expanding democracy, eliminating political corruption, defeating elitism and freeing the states from what they had come to regard as an onerous and difficult responsibility.

Towards the end of the war popular books became the source of films of higher quality and more serious tone, extoling more long-term values, including Guadalcanal Diary ( film ) ( 1943 ), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ) and They Were Expendable ( 1945 ).

Older publishers, envious of Pulitzer's success, began criticizing the World, harping on its crime stories and stunts while ignoring its more serious reporting — trends which influenced the popular perception of yellow journalism.

The Caravan not only helped save Chrysler as a serious high-volume American automaker, but also spawned an entirely new market segment that remains popular today: the minivan.

His infrequent serious pieces during the 1880s included two oratorios, The Martyr of Antioch ( 1880 ) and The Golden Legend ( 1886 ), his most popular choral work.

Despite his occasional ( if serious ) political setbacks — usually at the hands of his great Machiavellian rival, Louis XI of France — Edward was a popular and very able king.

The Allende Government also sought to bring the arts ( both serious and popular ) to the mass of the Chilean population by funding a number of cultural endeavours.

) The stated goal of the CJS is the synthesis of jazz and `` serious '' music.

After paying tribute to the conductor and his white-clad youthful students, President Kennedy said, `` As an American I have the greatest possible pride in the work that is being done in dozens of schools stretching across the United States -- schools where devoted teachers are studying with interested young men and women and opening up the whole wide horizon of serious music ''.

They are interpreted as competitive siblings, with Lisa / Salieri being a serious, unappreciated professional and Bart / Mozart the successful, uncouth rock star ( complete with an opera based on " Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit " to the music of Eine kleine Nachtmusik ).

The firm soon established a reputation in more serious music circles by championing the works of Franz Schubert.

Arrangements and transcriptions of classical and serious music go back to the early history of this genre.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

Although it was the operas with Gilbert that had earned him the broadest fame, the honour was conferred for his services to serious music.

After photographing his half-brother Sean's music tour in 2007, Lennon took up a serious interest in photography.

In a 2002 story for the Chicago Daily Record, Mark Guarino, the newspaper's music critic, wrote that "' Forever Changes ' is a touchstone for serious pop fanatics ..." He added that, "... the band's first three albums were since rediscovered as visionary classics, all three culminating in ' Forever Changes ' ( Elektra ), the band's 1967 masterpiece of ornate pop.

A few pubs have stage performances such as serious drama, stand-up comedy, musical bands, cabaret or striptease ; however juke boxes, karaoke and other forms of pre-recorded music have otherwise replaced the musical tradition of a piano or guitar and singing.

This recording reintroduced Joplin's music to the public in the manner the composer had intended, not as a nostalgic stereotype but as serious, respectable music.

It was also during this time in his life that Appleton developed a serious interest in the music of Polynesia and Micronesia.

The English visit saw Ellington win praise from members of the " serious " music community, including composer Constant Lambert, which gave a boost to Ellington's aspiration to compose longer works.

Visiting a synagogue, he was so struck by some of the cadences and progressions of the music that thirty years later he could recall them for use in his serious opera, Ivanhoe.

Byrd had also taken serious strides with instrumental music.

Recordings made by this group in 1923 demonstrated the serious artistry of the New Orleans style of collective improvisation or Dixieland music to a wider audience.

The musical establishment constantly pressured Sullivan to abandon comic opera in favour of serious music, and after he was knighted in 1883, the pressure only increased.

Sullivan, reflecting on this, on his own precarious health, and on his desire to devote himself to more serious music, replied that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself ".