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The general semantics concept " non-Aristotelian logic ", influenced the science fiction of the most prolific, best selling, influential authors of the genre during its flowering and height.
The destruction of cities by foreign invaders, and its resulting catastrophic suffering, unfortunately, was very common in the ancient Near East and, therefore, we can observe examples of the lament form / genre concerning destroyed cities and temples from extra-biblical sources, particularly from early Sumerian Literature dating to the late third and early second millennia BC.
With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills, the band became the first superstars of the genre.
: This article is about the modern folkloristic genre and its history.
Cyberpunk is a postmodern science fiction genre noted for its focus on " high tech and low life.
In an interview with the magazine N ' Digo published in late June 2008, he spoke of today's mainstream urban music seemingly relishing the addictive euphoria of materialism and sexism, perhaps being the primary cause of many people harboring resentment towards the genre and its future.
Smith's most celebrated short story is his first-published, " Scanners Live in Vain ", which led many of its earliest readers to assume that " Cordwainer Smith " was a new pen name for one of the established giants of the genre.
Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.
It has inspired a new genre, the Robinsonade as works like Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson ( 1812 ) adapt its premise and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee's Foe ( 1986 ) and Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique ( in English, Friday ) ( 1967 ).
Sholay became a classic in the genre, and its success lead to a surge in films in this genre, Ganga Ki Saugandh ( 1978 ) once again with Amitabh Bachchan, and Amjad Khan.
Also Melodrama, in its historical meaning of the then popular romantic genre of " spoken words to a background of music ", was something Satie avoided.
Epigram is associated with ' point ' because the European epigram tradition takes the Latin poet Martial as its principal model ; he copied and adapted Greek models ( particularly the contemporary poets Lucillius and Nicarchus ) selectively and in the process redefined the genre, aligning it with the indigenous Roman tradition of ' satura ', hexameter satire, as practised by ( among others ) his contemporary Juvenal.
Perhaps the most clearly formulaic plots characterize the romantic comedy genre ; in a book or film labeled as such, viewers already know its most basic central plot, including to some extent the ending.
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.
While noir is often associated with an urban setting, many classic noirs take place in small towns, suburbia, rural areas, or on the open road ; so setting cannot be its genre determinant, as with the Western.
Freestyle remained a largely underground genre with a sizeable following in New York, but has seen a comeback in the cities where the music experienced its greatest success.
( Let The Music Play )" can be considered part of the freestyle genre due to its use of a sample from the song, " Let The Music Play ", by Shannon.
“ Let the Music Play ”, by Shannon, is often named as the genre's first hit, and its sound, called " The Shannon Sound ," as the foundation of the genre.
The film would start a genre of its own called mockumentary and become hugely influential on later similar films, such as This is Spinal Tap and Hard Core Logo.
Food writer John T. Edge explains how the genre views its topic: " Food is essential to life.
His most famous films are the groundbreaking Metropolis ( the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release ) and M, made before he moved to the United States, his iconic precursor to the film noir genre.
form a sub-branch of the genre called Grande Dame Guignol for its use of aging A-list actresses in sensational horror films.
Characterized by its castles, dungeons, gloomy forests and hidden passages, from the Gothic novel genre emerged the Female Gothic.

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" Skyclad has since been credited as the originators and pioneers of the genre with Keith Fay of the band Cruachan recognising Skyclad as " the creators of folk metal.
The Bosstones are often credited as one of the progenitors of the genre of ska punk and the creators of its sub-genre ska-core, a form of music which mixes elements of ska with punk rock and hardcore.
Bengali music traditionally has been classified mainly by the region of origin and the creators of the musical genre, such as Nazrul geeti ( written and composed by Kazi Nazrul Islam ), ghombhira ( unique to a specific area in Bangladesh ), etc.
Jackson was an influential figure in the history of the blues, notable as " the first male singer / guitarist who played the blues to get to record " and as " one of the creators of ' Hokum '", a song genre featuring comic, often sexually suggestive lyrics and lively, danceable rhythms.
HIGH TECH SOUL focuses on the creators of the genre — Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson — and looks at the relationships and personal struggles behind the music.
Joaquim Antonio ( Callado ) da Silva | Joaquim Callado ( 1848-1880 ) is considered one of the creators of the choro genre of music.
He leads the " Ivo Papazov Wedding Band " in performances of jazz-infused Stambolovo music, and is one of the premier creators of the genre known as " wedding band " music in Bulgaria, along with the violinist Georgi Yanev, saxophonist Yuri Yunakov and accordionists Neshko Neshev, Ivan Milev and Peter Ralchev.
* The graboid's evolutionary origins are intentionally kept very vague ; the creators of the film were unconcerned with this detail, offering no explanation as to where the graboids came from in the original film, ( wanting to avoid the typical clichés of the monster movie genre.
Concertos for orchestra are compositions for orchestra that were called concerto by their creators, despite having no discernible, or continuously identical ( group of ) soloists, which brings them near to the symphony genre.
He emerged as one of the creators of the Soviet " mass song ", a new genre which evolved from a fusion of Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish and Armenian musical folklore, early 20th-century urban popular music and romance, revolutionary marches and protest song, Central European operetta, and tsarist-era waltzes.
He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the single most influential creators of the new Baroque style.
Rikki Ililonga & Musi-O-Tunya are generally credited as the creators of this music genre.
The advent of superhero comics in the early ' 80s marked the third wave, with creators and publishers hoping to benefit from the success of the superhero genre in the West.
Debuting as a teenager in the Swedish fanzine society, Jonsson later became one of the prime Swedish representants for the autobiographical comic genre, inspired by American and Canadian comic creators such as Harvey Pekar, Seth, and Joe Matt.
The creators were free to tell stories in any genre and to use DC's library of characters as they saw fit.
Policarpo Calle, an accordionist of cumbia and very popular vallenato musician in Colombia and Mexico with his song " La Porra Caimanera ", " La Cumbia chida ", " La Monaguilla ", " Leyda ", " Se cabrio la Cumbia " " Maria Salome " among others, mentions that the first introducer of cumbia in Mexico was the Mexican singer Carmen Rivero, she traveled until Colombia to learn cumbia music and to bring it to the country, parallel, Mike Laure a rock & roll musician from Jalisco began with the change of its style of rocker whom was not to him very favorable to a declared tropical musician, began trying in the new " tropical " music genre called cumbia, both, Carmen Rivero and Mike Laure by different ways, did not know that they would be in the pioneers and creators of the real Mexican cumbia.

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were able to inhibit bacterial growth, and even to cure bacterial infections in animal ( Ernest Duchesne in 1897 in his thesis " Contribution to the study of vital competition in micro-organisms: antagonism between moulds and microbes ", or also Clodomiro Picado Twight whose work at Institut Pasteur in 1923 on the inhibiting action of fungi of the " Penicillin sp " genre in the growth of staphylococci drew little interest from the direction of the Institut at the time ).
Haley and his band were important in launching the music known as " Rock and Roll " to a wider, mostly white audience after a period of it being considered an underground genre.
Love's varying genre interests were illustrated in a 1991 interview, in which she stated: " There's a part of me that wants to have a grindcore band and another that wants to have a Raspberries-type pop band.
Some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics, though their content was generally less explicit, and others resembled the output of mainstream publishers in format and genre but were published by smaller artist-owned companies or by single artists.
" It has been noted that British punk rock critics of disco were very supportive of the pro-black / anti-racist reggae genre.
Some of these were certainly " clones "— hastily assembled and quickly forgotten — others explored new grounds of the genre and were highly acclaimed.
Other films in this genre were, Khote Sikkay ( 1973 ), Mera Gaon Mera Desh ( 1971 ), and Kuchhe Dhaage ( 1973 ) both by Raj Khosla, the latter inspired the blockbuster, Sholay ( 1975 ) had the character of Gabbar Singh played by Amjad Khan.
Aeschylus and Sophocles were innovative, but Euripides had arrived at a position in the " ever-changing genre " where he could move easily between tragic, comic, romantic and political effects, a versatility that appears in individual plays and also over the course of his career.
The defining genre of the period was arguably the Heimatfilm (" homeland film "), in which morally simplistic tales of love and family were played out in a rural setting, often in the mountains of Bavaria, Austria or Switzerland.
Some of the first films of this new genre were Godard's Breathless ( À bout de souffle, 1960 ), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us ( Paris nous appartient, 1958-distributed in 1961 ), starring Jean-Claude Brialy and Truffaut's The 400 Blows ( Les Quatre Cent Coups, 1959 ) starring Jean-Pierre Léaud.
This genre soon also became an important political tool, although in most cases directors were able to keep a distinguishing barrier between art and politics.
The most popular Spaghetti Westerns were those of Sergio Leone, whose Dollars Trilogy ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ), featuring Clint Eastwood and scores by Ennio Morricone, came to define the genre along with Once Upon a Time in the West.
It argued that genre filmmakers and low-budget B-movies were just as important, if not more, than the prestige pictures commonly given more press and legitimacy in France and the United States.
Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).
These artists were successful on crossover stations as well as R & B stations, and freestyle was replaced as an underground genre by newer styles such as New Jack Swing, Trance and Eurodance.
With the advent of second wave feminism, women ’ s roles were questioned in this " subversive, mind expanding genre.
Further contributions to the Gothic genre were provided in the work of the Romantic poets.

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