His first three books gained much contemporary attention ( the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller ), and after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime.

History is often analyzed with contemporary ideologies ; Ancient Greece as a subject enjoyed popularity by the ruling class in Britain during the 19th century.

" briefly enjoyed some popularity in the contemporary vernacular.

Achard's greatest successes and popularity were in the period between the two World Wars when contemporary critics favorably compared him to some of his renowned French predecessors such as Pierre de Marivaux and Alfred de Musset.

The popularity of opera continued through the verismo era in Italy and contemporary French opera through to Puccini and Strauss in the early 20th century.

Now the term R & B is almost always used instead of the full rhythm and blues, and mainstream use of the term usually refers to contemporary R & B, which is a newer version of soul and funk-influenced pop music that originated as disco faded from popularity.

It has been insinuated both by contemporary and by later critics that being disappointed at his loss of popularity, and convinced of the impossibility of co-operating with his colleagues, he exaggerated his malady as a pretext for the inaction that was forced upon him by circumstances.

It fell out of fashion for a while in the middle 1980s, principally due to the emergence of polyphonic and later digital synthesizers, but has enjoyed a huge resurgence of popularity since the 1990s — with contemporary artists highlighting the instrument, including Radiohead, Portishead, The Album Leaf, D ' Angelo, Erykah Badu, Chick Corea, Jamiroquai, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, The Doors and Stevie Wonder.

Yuan's eventual decision to agree to nearly all of the demands led to a decline in the popularity of Yuan's government among contemporary Chinese, although many of the requests were mere extensions of Qing treaties.

The vehicle is in some ways considered the British equivalent of its German contemporary the Volkswagen Beetle, which enjoyed similar popularity in North America.

In recent years local contemporary country music, featuring much crossover with popular music, has enjoyed considerable popularity in Australia ; notable musicians of this genre include David Hudson, John Williamson, Gina Jeffreys, Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar-Daley, Sara Storer, Felicity Urquhart and Kasey Chambers.

Other less successful, contemporary authors who are still writing have seen reprints of their earlier works, due to current overwhelming popularity of crime fiction texts among audiences ( One only has to look at the amount of crime related television series to observe the astonishing popularity ).

McLean, using numerous quotes from theologians, Christian apologists and professors, goes on to offer contemporary Christian music as the reason for the falling popularity of more traditionalist churches.

The latter is a satire on contemporary follies, such as the masquerades of the Swiss impresario John James Heidegger, the popular Italian opera singers, John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and the exaggerated popularity of Lord Burlington's protégé, the architect and painter William Kent.

Enka music, adopting Japanese traditional structures, became quite popular in the postwar period, though its popularity has waned since the 1970s and enjoys little favour with contemporary youth.

The origin of this piercing pre-dates the popularity of contemporary body piercing.

He enjoyed immense popularity until the appearance of Joachim du Bellay's Défense et illustration ... in 1549, where Saint-Gelais was not excepted from the scorn poured on contemporary poets.

The Edsel never gained popularity with contemporary American car buyers and sold poorly.

Since its initial mainstream popularity and impact on the sound of contemporary R & B, it has been expanded and diversified musically through the works of both African-American and international artists.

His popularity in Japan may be compared with that of his contemporary W. Edwards Deming.

It was compiled by various persons and quickly acquired contemporary popularity, for it was continued by many hands in many manuscript traditions.

The film's popularity has also led to numerous other references in contemporary films.

A part of the Hawaiian Renaissance, this talented Hawaiian band's blend of contemporary and traditional styles gained in popularity as they toured Hawaii and the continental United States, releasing fifteen successful albums.

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

A folk ragtime tradition also existed before and during the period of classical ragtime ( a designation largely created by Scott Joplin's publisher John Stillwell Stark ), manifesting itself mostly through string bands, banjo and mandolin clubs ( which experienced a burst of popularity during the early 20th Century ), and the like.

The popularity of the Grimms ' collected folk tales endured well beyond their lifetimes.

Gaining popularity as a folk instrument in the early 19th century in the Celtic music revivals, penny whistles now play an integral part of several folk traditions.

Over time, the story of Hua Mulan rose in popularity as a folk tale among the Chinese people on the same level as the Butterfly Lovers.

The folk revival movements of the 1960s led to a modest resurgence in the popularity of the concertina particularly the Anglo.

While folk music has lost popularity in Poland, especially in urban areas, the tourist destination of Podhale has retained its traditions lively.

One theory, of sufficient popularity to serve as an example of folk etymology, is that the term horse latitudes originates from when the Spanish transported horses by ship to their colonies in the West Indies and Americas.

In the period starting from 1930 to 1970 appears a rebirth in the interest and popularity in folk music in Chile carried out initially by groups such as Los Cuatro Huasos, who took folk songs from the Chilean country and arranged them vocally and with musical instruments.

The Weavers ' mainstream popularity set the stage for the folk revival of the 1950s and early 1960s and also served to bridge the gap between folk, popular music, and topical song.

This renewed popularity of folk music forms in Britain led directly to the progressive folk movement and the attendant British folk club scene.

Throughout 1965 and 1966, hit singles like " Subterranean Homesick Blues ", " Like a Rolling Stone ", " Positively 4th Street ", and " I Want You " among others, along with the Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde albums, proved to be hugely influential on the development and popularity of folk rock.

The popularity and commercial success of The Byrds and Bob Dylan's blend of folk and rock music influenced a wave of imitators and emulators that retroactively became known as the folk rock boom.

By the 1980s the popularity of the electric folk was in steep decline but it has survived into the 21st century and has been revived as part of a more general folk resurgence since the 1990s.

The first popular recognition of the singer-songwriter in English-speaking North America and Great Britain occurred in the 1960s and early 1970s when a series of blues, folk and country-influenced musicians rose to prominence and popularity.

When African-American musical tastes began to change in the early 1960s, moving toward soul and rhythm and blues music, country blues found renewed popularity as " folk blues " and was sold to a primarily white, college-age audience.

By the 1950s, their popularity was declining rapidly and a group of musicians and musicologists founded organizations like Istituto de Martino and Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano to help preserve folk cultures.

His music today has regained some modest popularity via recordings.

Brooks ' integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances has earned him immense popularity.

Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

During the first decade of the 20th century, some songs under the name of samba were recorded, but these recordings did not achieve great popularity.

Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page explained that part of the reasoning for the album's release related to the popularity of unofficial Led Zeppelin recordings which continued to be circulated by fans:

The Leedy vibraphone achieved a degree of popularity after it was used in the novelty recordings of " Aloha ' Oe " and " Gypsy Love Song " by vaudeville performer Louis Frank Chiha (" Signor Frisco ").

Prerecorded stereophonic music cartridges were available, and blank cartridges could be used to make recordings at home, but the format failed to gain popularity.

Tippett's music increased greatly in popularity during the 1970s, thanks in part to the recordings made by Philips.

Ted Lewis's band was second only to the Paul Whiteman in popularity during the 1920s, and arguably played more real jazz with less pretension than Whiteman, especially in his recordings of the late 1920s.

Quicksilver Messenger Service gained wide popularity in the Bay Area and, through their recordings, with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe, and several of their albums ranked in the Top 30 of the Billboard Pop charts.

Originally, Billboard and other magazines which track the popularity of the musical artists and hit tunes measured the sales success of the published tune, not just recordings of it.

Such is Gigli's popularity that most of his recordings, including complete operas with Maria Caniglia, Rina Gigli, Licia Albanese and Toti dal Monte, have been converted to CD and are freely available.

Under Fiedler's direction the orchestra's popularity spread far beyond the city of Boston through recordings, radio and television.

The increased popularity of freestyle music, a Latin-influenced form of electronic dance music, played an influential role in the style of the group's initial recordings.

For example from the same session in 1905 the matrices of the famed Music Hall star Victoria Monks were either issued on full priced Gramophone Company recordings or the much cheaper Zonophone label-with no technical differences ( or indeed popularity of song ).

The resulting recordings by Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz cemented its popularity and led to a worldwide boom with the 1963 recordings of Getz / Gilberto.

A visit to New York in 1934 with Noble resulted in more success, and their recordings first achieved popularity in the USA ; he appeared at the head of an orchestra hand-picked for him and Noble by Glenn Miller ( the band included Claude Thornhill, Charlie Spivak, and Bud Freeman, among others ).

The popularity of Freberg's recordings landed him his own program, the situation comedy That's Rich.

More recently, with the burgeoning popularity of books-on-tape, longer versions of the recordings have been released on audiocassette and CD.

His new music video Dobra Kombinacija aired on K-15 TV and was accepted with great success by the hip hop community. One of the young names worth mentioning is Dino ' Versus ' Bojadzievski, who is considered to be one of the best Macedonian Hip-Hop lyricists. In 2009, he entered and won the " Rap i Pivo " freestyle battle competition, which brought him some recognition. Afterwards he released several demo recordings, some of which still retain popularity. Also, during that period, he worked with Macedonian rap legend Vladimir ' Temnata Strana ' Agovski on a single entitled ' Kako shto e ' ( As it Is ) which is to be released on the mixtape ' PRO-dukt '. He is currently finishing work on his album ' Od Hejt do Aplauzi ' which will feature many new songs as well as remakes of some of his most popular demo's.

" Despite being recorded in the projects of Puerto Rico, the majority of the recordings made in marquesinas were of high quality, which helped in increasing their popularity to the Puerto Rican youths of not only the projects but those of the middle and upper class as well.

His songs were passed on through amateur, fairly low quality recordings on vinyl discs and magnetic tape, resulting in his immense popularity.

During the early-to-middle part of the decade, several recordings were influenced by the popularity of line dancing, including " Boot-Scootin ' Boogie " by Brooks & Dunn and " Achy Breaky Heart " by Billy Ray Cyrus.