During the 19th century the gospel-song genre spread rapidly in Protestantism and, to a lesser but still definite extent, in Roman Catholicism ; the gospel-song genre is unknown in the worship per se by Eastern Orthodox churches, which rely exclusively on traditional chants ( a type of hymn ).

However, with the advent of sound in 1927-28 the major Hollywood studios rapidly abandoned Westerns, leaving the genre to smaller studios and producers, who churned out countless low-budget features and serials in the 1930s.

It gained international attention at the beginning of the new millennium and spread to scenes in London and Berlin, but rapidly faded as a recognizable genre as acts began to experiment with a variety of forms of music.

The style spread to scenes in London and Berlin, but rapidly faded as a recognisable genre as acts began to experiment with a variety of forms of music.

The genre rapidly lost mainstream interest from 1991 to 1993 with the rise of grunge and the release of albums such as Nirvana's Nevermind, but it has enjoyed revivals since the beginning of the new millennium with the Swedish sleaze metal movement and the retro styling of bands including The Darkness and Steel Panther.

Produced in Paris in 1828, it rapidly became a European favorite, and the foundation work of a new genre, grand opera, that was consolidated by Rossini's Guillaume Tell the following year.

" He points up the irony that " he most dynamic and rapidly growing economy of the globe after the fall of Soviet socialism was that of Communist China, leading Western business-school lectures and the authors of management manuals, a flourishing genre of literature, to scan the teachings of Confucius for the secrets of entrepreneurial success.

It gained international attention at the beginning of the new millennium, but rapidly faded as a recognisable genre.

Jazz is an American musical genre originated by African Americans but the style was rapidly and enthusiastically taken up by musicians all over the world, including Australia.

As Japan modernized and Westernized rapidly in the Meiji period, Mokuami moved along with new trends in theatre, becoming a pioneer of Shin-kabuki (" New Kabuki "), writing plays in new genres such as katsurekimono ( realistic, historically accurate jidaimono period plays ) and zangirimono ( sewamono genre plays featuring Meiji era contemporary characters and setting ).

During the 19th century the gospel-song genre spread rapidly in Protestantism and, to a lesser but still definite extent, in Roman Catholicism.

Written rapidly in the 1960s, it is considered a classic of the genre, and has proven highly influential in shaping subsequent authors ' works.

The popularity of the concerto grosso form declined after the Baroque period, and the genre was not revived until the 20th century.

In Le Sage's Gil Blas ( 1715 ) is a classic example of the genre, which in France had declined into an aristocratic adventure.

The genre declined in popularity in the late 1970s, but some established artists, including Neil Young, have continued to record country-tinged rock into the twenty-first century.

Although future prospects for Italian operas in London declined during the 1730s, Handel remained committed to the genre ; however he began to introduce English-language oratorios as occasional alternatives to his staged works.

Since then direct interest in the blues in Britain has declined, but many of the key performers have returned to it in recent years, new acts have emerged and there has been a renewed interest in the genre.

This final era of rebetiko ( mid 1940s-1953 ) also featured the emergence of night clubs ( κέντρα διασκεδάσεως ) as a means of popularizing music. By the late 1950s, rebetiko had declined ; it only survived in the form of Archontorebetiko ( Αρχοντορεμπέτικο " posh rebetiko "), a refined style of rebetiko that was far more accepted by the upper class than the traditional form of the genre.

Following Strauss, the genre declined and new works with explicitly narrative content are rare.

The genre declined in popularity with new forms of music and de-industrialisation in the twentieth century, but has continued to influence performers like Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen.

The genre declined somewhat during the 1980s, and in the late 1980s the Hong Kong film industry underwent a drastic decline, even before Hong Kong was handed to the People's Republic in 1997.

As ratings declined, the number of game shows and soap operas followed, with the former genre almost completely disappearing from American daytime television, to be replaced by much cheaper and more lowbrow tabloid talk shows.

Following this peak, neo-prog declined as a mainstream genre, although these three pioneering bands are still active, and several newer groups have worked in the same space in the 1990s and 2000s.

The western film genre declined in the late 1940s and Hayes made his last film appearance in The Cariboo Trail ( 1950 ).

Since then direct interest in the blues in Britain has declined, but many of the key performers have returned to it in recent years, new acts have emerged and there have been a renewed interest in the genre.

While the genre ’ s popularity declined during the 1990s, most recently, it has been subject to revivals by contemporary South Korean pop artists such as Jang Yoon Jeong.

In the late 1880s, the neoclassical genre became less popular, and Lewis's popularity also declined.

After Herodotus, the genre declined, but regained some popularity in the Hellenistic era.

The genre has declined in popularity after 1985 in preference to synth rock and hi-NRG, with a small revival of italo disco in the late 1990s.

Most, however, interpret the genre as epic stories of early Christian miracles and conversions.

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

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.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

The early Norwegian black metal scene developed the style of their forebears into a distinct genre.

In late 1997 and in early 1998 the " space adventure " genre was a very popular TV theme in Japan.

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.

New Media theorist Lev Manovich suggested Vertov as one of the early pioneers of database cinema genre in his essay Database as a symbolic form.

The genre has been active since the early 1950s, and played primarily since the mid-1970s.

The recent genre as a more concentrated design movement began in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Germany.

During the last years of the Russian Empire, in the early 20th century, many authors continued to write in the gothic fiction genre, including historian and historical fiction writer Alexander Valentinovich Amfiteatrov, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, who developed psychological characterization, symbolist Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, Alexander Grin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin.

It began in England during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre.

The bands that embraced the Gothic rock genre included Bauhaus, The Damned, The Cure, early Adam and the Ants, The Birthday Party, Southern Death Cult, Specimen, Sex Gang Children, UK Decay, Virgin Prunes, Christian Death and Killing Joke.

Japan made early forays into the horror genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei, both made in 1898.

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the American city of Chicago in the early 1980s.

Elvis Presley was a prominent player of the latter genre and was known early in his career as the " Hillbilly Cat ".

The most influential of Severn's early Italian genre paintings are The Vintage, commissioned by the Duke of Bedford in 1825, and The Fountain ( Royal Palace, Brussels ) commissioned by Leopold I of Belgium in 1826.

DikuMUD had a key influence on the early evolution of the MMORPG genre, with EverQuest ( created by avid DikuMUD player Brad McQuaid ) displaying such Diku-like gameplay that Verant developers were made to issue a sworn statement that no actual DikuMUD code was incorporated.

While early motets were liturgical or sacred, by the end of the thirteenth century the genre had expanded to include secular topics, such as courtly love.

In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by Venice's Arcadian Academy which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the 18th century.

Moreover, the essay is an early analysis of speculative fiction by one of the most important authors in the genre.

The American Old West was a mainstay genre of early turn of the 19th to 20th century novels as well as later pulp magazines, and lasted longest of all the traditional pulps.

A sitar, much used on early records of the genre.

As early as 1938, Theodor Adorno had already identified a trend toward the dissolution of " a culturally dominant set of values " ( Beard and Gloag 2005, 141 ), citing the commodification of all genres as beginning of the end of genre or value distinctions in music ( Adorno 2002, 293 – 95 ).