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.

Although game reports and social reactions are common parts of many A & E contributions, it has also, over the years, become a testing ground for new ideas on the development of the RPG as a genre and an art form.

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 ).

The word " apocalypse " is also used for other works of a similar nature in the literary genre of apocalyptic literature.

Steffan O ' Sullivan, who wrote GURPS Bunnies & Burrows notes, " The game has also been published as a GURPS supplement, but I usually play it in Fudge these days-the simpler rules seem to work better for this genre in particular.

The simplification of texture made such instrumental detail more important, and also made the use of characteristic rhythms, such as attention-getting opening fanfares, the funeral march rhythm, or the minuet genre, more important in establishing and unifying the tone of a single movement.

He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities.

The historical grammatical method is a hermeneutic technique that strives to uncover the meaning of the text by taking into account not just the grammatical words, but also the syntactical aspects, the cultural and historical background, and the literary genre.

* Kadans, a Haitian Creole music genre, also known as Cadence

Not surprisingly there are also comic-strips / graphic novels in the humorous fantasy genre, including Chuck Whelon's Pewfell series and the webcomics 8-Bit Theater and The Order of the Stick.

The upright bass remained an integral part of pop lineups throughout the 1950s, as the new genre of rock and roll was built largely upon the model of rhythm and blues, with strong elements also derived from jazz, country, and bluegrass.

Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre ( French ), Danza de la Muerte ( Spanish ), Dansa de la Mort ( Catalan ), Danza Macabra ( Italian ), Dança da Morte ( Portuguese ), Totentanz ( German ), Dodendans ( Dutch ), Surmatants ( Estonian ), is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.

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.

Although primarily known for his idealised landscapes and seascapes, Bannister also executed portraits, biblical and mythological scenes, and genre scenes.

It is likely that ELIZA was also on the system where Will Crowther created Colossal Cave ( Adventure ), the 1975 game that spawned the interactive fiction genre.

These set-ups are taken for granted by the genre conventions, and need not be explained for the reader anew ... though it should also be noted that these elements can easily be treated subversively as well, playing with some of the preconceptions inherent in formula fiction.

Music in this genre is also often called traditional music.

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 genre also deals with male / female categories, showing how female roles can differ from feminine roles.

Graffiti may also express underlying social and political messages and a whole genre of artistic expression is based upon spray paint graffiti styles.

This period also saw the emergence of the new stencil graffiti genre.

Radcliffe also provided an aesthetic for the genre in an influential article " On the Supernatural in Poetry ", examining the distinction and correlation between horror and terror in Gothic fiction

Some parts of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time ( 1840 ) are also considered to belong in the gothic genre, but they lack the supernatural elements of the other Russian gothic stories.