But his facility in this genre was not great.

Chaâbi music is a typically Algerian musical genre that was derived from the Andalusian music during the 1920s.

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

The question regarding the genre of Acts is complicated by the fact that it was written by the same author as the Gospel of Luke.

While it was not the actual " Birthplace of Hip Hop " – the genre developed slowly in several places in the 1970s – it was verified to be the place where one of the pivotal and formative events occurred.

A Filmways production created by writer Paul Henning, it is the first in a genre of " fish out of water " themed television shows, and was followed by other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS.

The genre of novellas under which Esther falls was common during both the Persian and Hellenistic periods to which scholars have dated the book of Esther.

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.

He was one of the first in the genre to write, produce, and perform his own songs.

A further development was the evolution of the blues ballad, which mixed the genre with Afro-American music.

Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, " Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk.

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.

The 1999 game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was also created by Meier and is in the same genre, but with a futuristic / space theme.

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.

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

Though the progressive rock genre was beginning to decrease in popularity, concept albums had become a medium that continued.

She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction.

The film was James Stewart's first western ( he would not return to the genre until 1950, with Broken Arrow and Winchester 73 ), and was also notable for a ferocious cat-fight between Marlene Dietrich and Una Merkel, which apparently caused a mild censorship problem at the time of release.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

" Le Freak " was a popular 1978 single that is regarded as an iconic song of the genre.

By the late 1970s, melodrama was nearly finished as an overt genre, as the hunger for realism dominated film in groundbreaking movies like Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.

Émile Gaboriau was a pioneer of the detective fiction genre in France.

Distinction is often made between erotica and pornography ( the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense reaction ) ( as well as the lesser known genre of sexual entertainment, ribaldry ), although depending on the viewer they may seem one and the same.

Many of his works are generally considered part of the dark romanticism genre, a literary reaction to transcendentalism, which Poe strongly disliked.

Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears.

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.

Conversely, another alternative rock genre, Britpop, emerged in part as a reaction against the dominance of grunge in the United Kingdom.

The music was a reaction to the 1980s flow of hip hop culture from New York City and California, and can be considered a third major American hip hop genre, after East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop.

The genre " rave ", also known as 1980s hardcore by ravers, first appeared amongst the acid house movement in Scotland during the mid-1980s as a reaction to New Beat.

Don Quixote is an early 17th-century parody of the genre, in reaction to the extreme popularity which late medieval romances such as Amadis de Gaula came to enjoy in the Iberian Peninsula in the 16th century.

Despite being heralded as a pioneer of a diverse genre known as ' emo ' ( a term rejected by Kinsella ), Joan of Arc's next album was a reaction to this unwelcome classification.

Most professionals around Dionnet had the same reject reaction, but the French publisher was both struck and puzzled by this new genre.

In British humor, the genre of " sick jokes " is often used to shock by poking fun at taboo or as a reaction against political correctness.

The positive reaction to ABA Games ' first shoot ' em up, Noiz2sa ( 2002 ), encouraged him to concentrate on that genre.

He is interested in many progressive and controversial ideas some of which are a new vision of a genre driven Australian cinema and what to do in reaction to the ongoing Australian cinema crisis, his interest in politics and issues of social discourse, his interest in Free Speech ( an example of which are: the attempted screening of a David Irving doco, at MUFF in 2003 ; a screening of Larry Clark film Ken Park ; and his championing of gay and straight adult erotic cinema, again, at MUFF, his successful public disobedience screening of L. A. Zombie in 2010, etc.

The band were officially formed in 1997 as a reaction to what was an apparent commercialization of the punk genre.

Furthermore, there is also the case of electronic music artists, whose music is generally entirely ( or mostly ) based on multiple, individually created tracks, all set to rigid timing by the very nature of the medium used to produce the genre.

Booth loosened the rigid categories of genre originally set forth by the Chicago School, and moved the concentration away from poetry towards rhetoric.

Acts such as Shellac and Louisville's Slint have been considered as influential to the development of the genre of math rock, with the former featuring " awkward time signatures and trademark aggression " that has come to characterize " a certain slant " on math rock, while the latter presented " instrumental music seeped in dramatic tension but set to rigid systems of solid-structured guitar patterns and percussive repetition ".

The rigid, short structure ( and, to a lesser degree, the type of humor used ) parallels the poetic genre of limericks in British culture.