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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.

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The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1749 ).
These artists were successful on crossover stations as well as R & B stations, and freestyle was replaced as an underground genre by newer styles such as New Jack Swing, Trance and Eurodance.
The film was extremely successful in terms of both box-office and critical reception, being called " Jaws in space ", and a landmark film for the science fiction genre.
It proved to be a commercially successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular.
ABC's contribution to the music video program genre in 1984, ABC Rocks, was far less successful, lasting only a year.
Films of the latter type are generally considered to be artistically superior films, but many films of the former type are commercially successful and well received by fans of the genre.
In addition, western animation has ventured into the genre with the most successful effort being the internationally hailed DreamWorks Animation film franchise, Kung Fu Panda, starring Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.
Pretty Woman is considered by many critics to be the most successful movie in the genre.
The genre was not all about clashing civilizations ; Water on the Brain ( 1933 ) by former intelligence officer Compton Mackenzie was the first successful spy novel satire.
Furthermore, by far the most commercially successful of this lot was Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars whose innovations in cinematic style, music acting and story decided the future for the genre.
In 1991, Capcom's highly successful Street Fighter II refined and popularized many of the conventions of the genre.
Street Fighter's successful revival has sparked a renaissance for the genre, introducing new players to the genre and with the increased audience allowing other fighting game franchises to achieve successful revivals of their own.
Leone gains credit for one great breakthrough in the western genre still followed today: in traditional western films, many heroes and villains looked alike as if they had just stepped out of a fashion magazine, with clearly drawn moral opposites, even down to the hero wearing a white hat and the villain wearing a black hat ( except for the most successful of the ' traditional western cowboys ' - Hopalong Cassidy, who wore a black outfit upon a pale horse ).
Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime.
It was not the first rock and roll record, nor was it the first successful record of the genre ( Bill Haley had American chart success with " Crazy Man, Crazy " in 1953, and in 1954, " Shake, Rattle and Roll " reached No. 1 on the Billboard R & B chart ).
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.
Though there is also a healthy and active grindcore scene, death metal remains Poland's strongest and most successful genre in terms of heavy metal.
Cop Rock attempted to combine police procedural with musical theatre, the former a genre in which Bochco had already been very successful with Hill Street Blues.
Aretha Franklin's 1967 recordings, such as " I Never Loved a Man ( The Way I Love You )", " Respect " ( originally sung by Otis Redding ), and " Do Right Woman, Do Right Man " ( written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn ), are considered the apogee of the soul genre, and were among its most commercially successful productions.
He also says that developers need to begin looking outside the genre for new ideas in order for strategy games to continue to be successful in the future.
Gentleman's Agreement established his power in the " social conscience " genre in a film that took on the deep-seated but subtle antisemitism of mid-century corporate America. Twelve O ' Clock High was the first of many successful war films in which Peck embodied the brave, effective, yet human fighting man.
The greatest commercial success for country rock came in the 1970s, with the Doobie Brothers mixing in elements of R & B, Emmylou Harris ( a former backing singer for Parsons ) becoming the " Queen of country-rock " and Linda Ronstadt creating a highly successful pop-oriented brand of the genre.

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