Conjunto (, group ) literally translates as " group ," and is regionally accepted in Texas as defining a genre of music ( also known as Conjunto music ) that was born out of south Texas at the end of the 19th Century, after German settlers introduced the button accordion.

He performed in the genre of avanspettacolo, a vaudevillian mixture of music, ballet and comedy preceding the main act ( hence its name, which roughly translates as " before show ").

The German name translates as the Swiss Robinson, and identifies the novel as belonging to the Robinsonade genre, rather than as a story about a family named Robinson.

Usually, this is of a fairly concrete historical subject ( such as the Battle of Gettysburg, one of several popular topics in the genre ), but it can also be extended to non-historical ones as well.

While the tin whistle is very common in Irish music to the point that it could be called characteristic of the genre and fairly common in Scottish music, it is not a " required " instrument in either one.

Although this volume is notable for featuring imagined histories by serious historians, the histories are presented in narrative form ( in most cases with a fairly whimsical tone ) without any analysis of the reasoning behind these scenarios, so they fall short of modern standards for serious counterfactual history and are closer to the fictional alternate history genre.

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.

The idea of exiting the ship to explore the game world remains fairly uncommon in the genre to this day.

Where Halloween had broken new ground and was imitated by many genre films following in its wake, this third installment seemed hackneyed to many: one critic suggests that if Halloween III was not part of the Halloween series, then it would simply be " a fairly nondescript eighties horror flick, no worse and no better than many others.

By this point, Assemblage 23 had become fairly popular within the EBM genre ; the third album, Defiance, was released in October 2002 on Metropolis and Accession, preceded by the single " Document ", in September of that year.

As a consumer game, it is a genre mix of strategy game, action game, simulation game, and wargame of fairly complex gameplay.

Although a fairly obscure genre, swamp pop maintains a large audience in its south Louisiana and southeast Texas homeland, and it has acquired a small but passionate cult following in the United Kingdom, northern Europe, and Japan.

The travel genre was a fairly common genre in medieval Arabic literature.

The nudist or nudist camp genre was a fairly common exploitation film genre of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The pure Arabesk album " Acıların Kadını " by the singer Bergen was the bestselling album in Turkey in 1986 and may be fairly labelled one of the classic albums of the genre.

The show has a fairly campy and light-hearted take on the genre, often makes fun of itself, and rarely seems to take itself seriously.

The melodies on " Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus " are generally seen as more complex and more influenced by contemporary pop and rock than on Fältskog's earlier albums, which had been in the fairly lightweight schlager genre, and Bosse Carlgren's poignant, ironic and humorous lyrics make up small stories in themselves-some even including slightly risqué content.

Burroughs established a set of conventions that were followed fairly closely by most other entries in the Sword and Planet genre.

Although a majority of his work was at RKO Pictures, where many of his scores were for films considered to be fairly light in content, he is better known today for the scores he composed for film noir and the horror genre, particularly those directed by Val Lewton.

The history of modern Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games ( MMORPGs ) like World of Warcraft, and related virtual world genres such as the social virtual worlds exemplified by Second Life, traces directly back to the MUD genre.

By rapping in their native language, Islamic Force connected directly with Turkey as a country as well as their cultural background while simultaneously merging a global genre ( hip hop ) with a local culture ( Turkish traditions ) According to Diessel, “ The synthesis of Turkish musical idioms and language with hip hop was successful in appealing to a young audience.

Having been written in 1590, it is contemporary with much of the above-but is unlikely to have been directly influenced by the European genre.

Regardless of genre, Tang poets notably strove to perfect a style in which poetic subjects are exposed and evident, often without directly referring to the emotional thrust at hand.

One of the first bands to craft a distinctly American sound in response to the British Invasion was The Beach Boys ; while not a folk rock band themselves, they directly influenced the genre, and at the height of the folk rock boom in 1966 had a hit with a cover of the 1920s West Indian folk song " Sloop John B ", which they had learned from The Kingston Trio, who, in turn, had learned it from The Weavers.

He must have begun this about the year 405 BC, and by 400 he had perfected the dialogue, especially in the cycle directly inspired by the death of Socrates, and is considered a master of the genre.

The term has been embraced by numerous DJs and promoters who are not otherwise directly associated with the genre, even attracting attention from turntablist DJ Craze.

The 2004 title Doom 3 is sometimes categorized as survival horror, although it is considered an Americanized take on the genre due to the player's ability to directly confront monsters with weaponry.

" Women's fiction ( including chick lit ) is not directly a subcategory of the romance novel genre, because in women's fiction the heroine's relationship with her family or friends may be equally as important as her relationship with the hero.

The story is one of the most important texts of imaginative literature and had a lasting impact on the fantasy genre, directly giving rise to the ' lost civilisation ' tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the creation of mythologised locations such as Shangri-la.

Electro ( short for either electro-funk or electro-boogie ) is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 drum machines, and funk sampling .< ref > Electro itself is a musical style blending " funk & synthesizers with elements of hip-hop ", according to

In the early 1980s, a popular new genre ( a. k. a. neo-noir ) suddenly emerged that was directly inspired by the moody, fatalistic film noir crime dramas of the 1940s.

The standard poetic forms — for poetry was as much the dominant genre in the written tradition as in the folk tradition — were derived either directly from the Persian literary tradition ( the gazel غزل ; the mesnevî مسنوى ), or indirectly through Persian from the Arabic ( the kasîde قصيده ).

CRTC genre exclusivity restrictions prevented MTV from either bringing its U. S. channel directly into Canada or setting up a homegrown competitor.

But Gold's notion of Amichai's ' poetics of camouflage ' rests on an entirely unexamined assumption-that it is the task of the poet to represent his life directly and in full …" However, Gold argued that Amichai only wrote extensively about Wuerzburg in his novel because it was not his primary genre and therefore would be read by fewer people.

Overall, Young Adult Literature needs to contain specific elements that will not only interest readers of this genre, but elements that relate directly to real situations adolescents in all generations may encounter, and contain believable, empathetic characters.

The now bearded Gartside dived directly into the now commercially accessible hip hop scene, borrowing tradesmen of the genre such as Mos Def and Jimahl amongst others.

Characters discuss the romance and aspects of that genre in a way that comments directly on the action in the book, and an important ( but physically and intellectually impotent ) literary theorist is named Arthur Kingfisher in direct reference to Arthurian legend and the Fisher King.

Design critic Alice Twemlow wrote: "... in the 1980s ... he would directly and irreverently " lift " an image from one genre — art history for example — and recontextualize it in another.

Studio and live albums in the electronic genre can be nearly indistinguishable if the recording is made directly from the soundboard.

Genre studies have perhaps gained the most recognition in film theory, where the study of genre directly contrasts with auteur theory, which privileges the director's role in crafting a movie.

GameSpot directly stated that with Legends 2s release, Capcom was able to turn " what began as a mere spin-off into a worthy stand-alone franchise ", while Allgame's Jon Thompson stated it " trumps its predecessor in almost every way, and shows that Capcom is certainly learning from its mistakes in the genre ".

Similar in many respects to the cinéma vérité genre, it was characterized initially by filmmakers ' desire to directly capture reality and represent it truthfully, and to question the relationship of reality with cinema.

His genre paintings figured prominently in Denmark ’ s National Romantic period, an artistic period directly after the Golden Age of Danish Painting, when artistic focus was turned inwards to uniquely Danish themes.