Approaching a given genre, certain assumed background information covers the nature and purpose of possible predictable elements of the story, such as the appearance of dragons and wizards in high fantasy, warp drives in science fiction, or shootouts at high noon in Westerns.

Punk rock, often seen as a reaction to the artifice of glam rock, but using some elements of the genre including makeup and involving covers versions of glam rock records, helped end the fashion for glam from about 1976.

Nowadays Greek Hip Hop covers a broad spectrum, all the way from hardcore hip hop to urban pop, and has managed to transform from an underground musical genre to one that tops the charts in Greece.

There are also bands who create entire albums out of covers, but unlike Tin Pan Alley-style traditional pop singers, they often perform the songs in a genre completely unlike the original songs.

Many up and coming bands in the metal genre cover songs by their predecessors to gain public interest, although more established bands have also recorded covers.

In specific subgenres of metal, covers generally reflect the genre the band is in.

Each station covers a particular music genre, such as rap music ( Wildstyle ), rock ( V-Rock ) and ( most predominantly ) pop music ( Wave 103, Flash FM ).

In the early 1960s, some Japanese music became influenced by the American folk music revival ; this was called, although the genre of music was mostly covers of original songs.

Another type of cover band is one that covers songs in a different genre or style than that of the original composition ( e. g., jazz versions of what were originally hard rock songs ).

Some cover bands perform covers that are of a different musical genre from the originals.

* Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is known for punk covers of other artists, with each album picking a different genre or era ( i. e. hits of the 1970s, showtunes, etc.

In the genre of a slightly modified historical novel ( inverted narration and chapter lay-out ), this novel is a chronicle of a Dubrovnik family, but it also covers parts of Herzegovina and Bosnia, as well as some other European cities, while in terms of period it starts with the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, covers the downfall of the two empires, the two world wars, the rise and fall of socialism and ends just before the war of 1991.

As the term " indie hip hop " is indicative of the artists making the music rather than the music itself, it is not strictly a genre, but rather covers a range of styles with clearly discernable hip hop characteristics.

Electronica is a somewhat vague and broadly defined musical genre that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music.

Young Adult Literature has become a genre which covers various types of text including: novels, graphic novels, short stories, and poetry.

His work was a dominant force in the transition of genre book covers away from the surrealism introduced in the 1950s and 1960s back to realism.

Although widely regarded as pioneers of the grindcore genre, their early work was also tagged as splatter death metal, hardgore, and goregrind ; on account of their morbid lyrics and gruesome album covers.

While artists such as Stephanie Pui-Mun Law have produced genre illustrations for book covers and role-playing games, the works of Brian Froud, also known for a series of illustrated fairy books, have been adapted into several successful motion pictures including The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.

He was introduced to genre fiction and in particular science fiction from an early age, as his father had a collection of science fiction books which lined the walls of Dann's bedroom and he recalls " gazing at the colorful covers before I could read.

The music genre has roots in the country as it spread in the early 1960s from the United States with the earliest versions of rock and roll during this period being cover versions or interpretative covers of already existing songs.

It covers the genre spectrum ; there are powerful clubby tracks, garage-pop tracks, and body-rocking tracks.

* Online archive of the covers from Mechanix Illustrated under its various titles ( with other magazines in the same genre )

Josh Wink's fourth studio album entitled When A Banana Was Just A Banana was released in February 2009 on Ovum Recordings, according to Wink, the album covers a spectrum of electronic music that cannot be assigned to one single genre.

Because food writing is topic centered, it is not a genre in itself, but writing that utilizes a wide range of traditional genres, including recipes, journalism, memoir, and travelogues.

While most artists were from the country genre, a wide range of artists were featured.

Japanese painting is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese arts, encompassing a wide variety of genre and styles.

Pulp magazines often contained a wide variety of genre fiction, including, but not limited to,

Satire is a diverse genre which is complex to classify and define, with a wide range of satiric " modes ".

Fans in the West have adopted a wide range of Japanese anime and manga terminology, however the strong stylistic and thematic similarities between a sector of shōjo works has led to regarding them as a genre or style, sometimes with an attempt to assign it by degrees.

In the north, now very largely Protestant, religious art largely disappeared, and Dutch Golden Age painting concentrated on a wide range of secular subjects, such as genre painting, landscape art and still-lives, with results that might sometimes have surprised the Protestant ministers who initiated the movement.

Containing work by a myriad of authors, which included J. P. Donleavy, Edward Albee, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Vladimir Nabokov, Bruce Jay Friedman, himself, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, this was one of the first American anthologies devoted to the conception of black humor as a literary genre ; the publication also sparked nation wide interest in black humor.

In recent years, artists such as Selena, often referred to as " The Queen of Tejano ", Alicia Villarreal, Elsa Garcia, Laura Canales, La Mafia, Jay Perez, Mazz, and Jennifer Peña have transformed Tejano music from primarily Tejano, ethnic form of music to a genre with wide appeal in people who like Tejano.

The name also includes a heavy metal umlaut, again hinting at the satirical when naming a band because though Moxy Früvous was known for crossing a very wide range of genres, heavy metal is not a genre most listeners of Moxy Früvous would associate with the group.

In the 1990s, the emergence of the world wide web and the cyberpunk genre spawned several movies on the theme of the computer-human interface, such as Total Recall ( 1990 ), The Lawnmower Man ( 1992 ), and The Matrix ( 1999 ).

" He was an outstanding virtuoso of the keyboard, with a reasonably wide repertory of surviving works, including twenty symphonies, the later ones influenced by Haydn and Mozart ; and hardly a genre of vocal music was neglected by him

The story ( which is a parody of the Dungeons and Dragons genre ) is very tongue-in-cheek, and pokes fun at a number of anime clichés, most notably its overuse of super deformation and its wide range of genres in a similar way to anime such as Excel Saga.

Schifrin fused a wide variety of influences, including classical music, jazz, psychedelic rock, along with Edda Dell ' Orso-style vocals, into a score that " could best be described as acid jazz some 25 years before that genre began.

Commenters on the ethnic or national origins of shanties, writing in the 19th century when shanties were still in wide use, generally supposed the genre to originate in America and recognized parallels to African-American singing — as opposed to earlier English traditions from Britain.

While the crews of merchant ships in which shanties were sung might have come from a wide variety of national and ethnic backgrounds and might have spoken various mother-tongues, the shanty genre was by and large an English-language phenomenon.

She is known for writing sexually-driven lyrics and female empowerment compositions with a bit of an edge to them through her love for free-spirited word play and incorporates a wide genre of music such as pop, dance, jazz, soul, hip-hop, techno, rock, reggae, and quiet storm.

Streamline, in being the first company dedicated to making anime accessible to the English speaking world, was notable for releasing a wide variety of anime that fit in a wide variety of genres, many of which do not fit completely in any genre such as Twilight of the Cockroaches.

It hosts a wide range of performances, including multi genre music, theatre, comedy, dance, films, literature-as well as putting on an array of activities and workshops for people in the community of all ages.

Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews from a wide range of critics, gives the film a score of 63 %, with the consensus " More gory than scary, Cabin Fever is satisfied with paying homage to genre conventions rather than reinventing them.

Typically, these artists were not themselves considered punk ; furthermore, the typification is not widely regarded to have been the result of a distinct musical genre as these precursors came from a wide array of backgrounds, styles, and influences.

He is known today for his interest in a wide variety of subjects, ideas, vocabularies, and periods, as well as his use of authorial disguises, and for his influence ( alongside György Lukács ) on the growth of Western scholarship on the novel as a premiere literary genre.

Finally, he concluded: " Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk cemented Emperor's reputation as black metal's greatest band, and Ihsahn as its foremost musical visionary ; it also firmly established black metal as an art form that wasn't going away any time soon, and opened up a wide range of creative possibilities to the more progressive, eccentric wing of the genre.