Yes also produced concept albums during the ' 70s, most notably Tales from Topographic Oceans, which would become a defining album of prog rock, but its critical backlash would lead to the genre's decline in popularity and the rise of punk rock.

Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s.

The 1930s through the 1960s are considered to be the golden age of the musical film, when the genre's popularity was at its highest in the Western world.

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.

His prolific production of quality marches added to the genre's popularity.

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

Guns N ' Roses ' Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II ( both in 1991 ) and Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge ( 1991 ) showcased the genre's popularity.

A Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming that has typically been scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks from the 1960s to the present ; the genre's peak in popularity mostly ended in the 2000s while the popularity of cable and satellite television, as well as the internet, has provided 24 hour access to cartoons for children.

Baduizms commercial and critical success earned Erykah Badu popularity at the time and helped establish her as one of the emerging neo soul genre's leading artists.

Such " Grand Tour " portraits by Batoni came to proliferate in the British private collections, thus ensuring the genre's popularity in the United Kingdom, where Sir Joshua Reynolds would become its leading practitioner.

This followed the genre's growth in popularity after World War II.

Fusing reggaeton with hip hop music has ensured the genre's popularity among both young and old aficionados of Latin music.

In particular, he has sought to help bring back to popularity the western, often playing one of that genre's typical characters but thrust into a modern context.

Regardless, the genre's increased popularity led Western developers to incorporate horror elements into action games, rather than follow the Japanese survival style.

The availability and quality of these cassettes led to the genre's popularity, crossing over socio-economic barriers in the Puerto Rican music scene.

During the 1990s, country music's mainstream popularity became so great that Time magazine devoted a cover story detailing the genre's history and reasons for its growing popularity.

But Sánchez was also able to widen the genre's popularity even further to teenage girls, thanks to his teen idol persona and focus on contemporary romantic ballads instead of the edgier themes of crime and drugs covered by his father.

His explorations into world music predated much of the genre's popularity.

After a decline in popularity in the late 1970s Judas Priest discarded most of the genre's blues influences, particularly on their 1980 album British Steel, which opened the door for the New Wave of British Heavy Metal including Iron Maiden, Vardis, Saxon and Def Leppard, and a return to popularity in the 1980s.

Martin, R. A. Salvatore, J. K. Rowling, Christopher Paolini, Peter S. Beagle, Terry Brooks, Steven Erikson, Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Rick Riordan, Scott Lynch, Ursula K. Le Guin, David Eddings, Tamora Pierce, Charles de Lint, Raymond E. Feist, Laura Gallego, Brandon Mull, and partly Laurell K. Hamilton and Angie Sage are maintaining the genre's popularity.

Originally stemmed from ideas of Sierra's adventure game Softporn Adventure created by designer Chuck Benton, the " Larry " games were one of Sierra's most popular game series during the genre's heyday when it was first released in the mid 1980s.

The genre's origins can be traced back to Spacewar !, one of the very earliest computer games, developed in 1961 and eventually released in arcades in the early 1970s.

The Megami Tensei series differs among other Japanese role-playing video games because it generally eschews the genre's typical pseudo-Medieval settings and sword and sorcery elements.

Through October 2010, music games achieved net sales of around $ 200 million, one-fifth of the genre's revenue during the same period in 2008.

Dance games such as Just Dance and Dance Central boosted the rhythm genre's late-2010 sales ; the latter was the top-selling game for the Kinect in North America in November 2010.

The genre's roots can be found in games released in the late eighties, including the Power Pad ( or Family Trainer ), released for the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) in 1986, and the Foot Craz, released for the Atari 2600 in 1987, although both had limited success.

The sound became synonymous with Butler's production, and the name of the group he was in, Freestyle, became the genre's name.

However, few gained the success of the genre's earlier productions, and even entries in the established Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street sagas became less frequent.

Beginning in the 1960s, dancing became a part of the singers ' work with Johnny Ventura's Combo Show format, and is now a staple of many of the genre's biggest stars.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty became the genre's best selling game with 7 million in sales, followed by Metal Gear Solid with 6 million in sales.

Later in the decade, Darkie became the genre's biggest star, and he crossed into mainstream markets in the later 1990s.

He portrayed character Todd Manning on the daytime drama One Life to Live, which became an iconic fixture in the genre's medium, and earned Howarth a Daytime Emmy Award.

It was shortly after this that he was cast on the fellow ABC daytime drama One Life to Live as Todd Manning, in what was supposed to be a day-player role but became one of the genre's most successful and enduring characters.

In the late-1980s, Darkie became the genre's biggest star, crossing into mainstream markets in the later 1990s.

The group would later alter their sound with influence from proto-black metal bands like Celtic Frost and Venom, and in the process became one of the genre's instigators.

In this decade, the radio spread the genre's popularity all around the country, and with the support of the nationalist dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas, samba became Brazil's " official music.

Reggae became widely popular in the UK mostly thanks to Jamaican-born singer-songwriter Bob Marley, who was one of the genre's main founders and one of its most prolific and consistent songwriters.

The book came to be regarded as a classic among spy thrillers, setting out what became some of the genre's basic conventions and immensely influencing later works including the James Bond series.

Due to the genre's popularity when the song was released in 1994, the song became a hit both nationally and internationally.

The reason for this was to stay true to the genre's underground roots and to make the music sound more " raw " and " cold ".

In fact, the practice has made possible the longevity of the genre's more popular strips.

A more analogous case is that of the screwball comedy, widely accepted by film historians as constituting a " genre ": the screwball is defined not by a fundamental attribute, but by a general disposition and a group of elements, some — but rarely and perhaps never all — of which are found in each of the genre's films.

Sleeve notes by David Toop acknowledged the genre's multitude of musical and cultural influences and suggested none should be considered more important than any other.

According to music writers, the genre's works are mostly album-oriented and distinguished by its musicianship and production, incorporating " organic " elements of classic soul music with the use of live instrumentation, in contrast to the more single-oriented, hip hop-based, and producer-driven sampling approach of contemporary R & B.

Noting that most of the genre's artists are singer-songwriters, writers have viewed neo soul artists ' lyrical content of as more " conscious-driven " and having a broader range than most other R & B artists.

In the 20th century, the focus of the aubade shifted from the genre's original specialized courtly love context into the more abstract theme of a human parting at daybreak.

Relying more on instrumentation, the sound was well-suited for listeners unfamiliar with the genre's conventions.

The genre's main musical characteristic is its use of predominantly electronic piano chords in a more lyrical form than classic Chicago House records.

Hip hop soul is also considered more " mature " than New Jack Swing but less so than Neo-Soul due to the genre's attention to the darker aspects of love and life and it's use of adult language and themes ( i. e. sex ).

A third RTS game with a much more conventional approach to the genre's norms and using the Age of Kings engine, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, offered a better alternative to those seeking strategy in the Star Wars universe.

Scottish artist Susan Philipsz's 2010 British Turner Prize win for her piece Lowlands ( overlapping recordings of the artist singing an ancient Scottish lament in three different versions, played back over a loudspeaker system, without any visual component ) was seen as an important boost for this relatively new genre ( it was the first time a work of sound art won this prestigious prize ), and, in winning an art prize, again highlighted the genre's blurred boundaries with other, more visual artforms.