Genres

Throughout history, the public has been entertained by stories written and performed by artists visually. The creation of the moving picture gave an outlet to visual art performers to reach brand new audiences of enormous sizes. The cultural and artistic differences that influenced art prior to the film industry also made an imprint on films from around the Western world. Because of the emphasis on capitalism in America and England, the films of English speaking directors tended to be aimed at…

states the artist that will be performing will “present a collaborative works mixing genres of music to each of the cultural upbringing and exploring spaces between classical Indian, acoustic hip-hop, and Go-Go from D.C. (NisthaRaj).” Now it will be interesting to see how the artist are able to mash the two styles together as one is very strict with a governing set of rules while the other is a mix of many different genres of music. Nistha Raj is an American Citizen born into an Indian…

that have found their way into the seams of jazz. The article describes how the influence cannot be explained only with words, you have to listen and hear the emotions of both, how both genres are important and meaningful. The meaningful lyrics and sounds and tones of the two have influenced so many other genres…

One of the original movies of this genre to start this trend was “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” directed by Robert Wiene. The film is a mystery horror film about a man named Dr. Caligari who comes to town along with his partner Cesare; it is full of unexpected plot twists like the main character…

history scholars rely on textbooks and other sources with concrete evidence to piece together events from the Holocaust. Memories are frequently cast aside as unreliable, subjective sources of information. In an article about History, Memory and the Genre of Testimony,…

Argentine writers were the first in Latin America to thoroughly examine jazz as a technically sophisticated musical genre. In the 1930s and 1940s, a number of Argentine jazz journals, particularly Síncopa y Ritmo and Swing, came into being to promote jazz and capitalize on its growing popularity in Argentina. (Borge,…

music videos being produced in recent years. The problem is that music videos aim to please a younger crowd while most people who listen to jazz do not fit into the young demographic. This is because jazz has transitioned from folk music genre to a popular music genre and is now considered an art form. People nowadays do not have the time to sit around to really listen to music. Our society is so hung up on catchy chorus lyrics and techno beats that we sometimes lose the fundamental art of…

New genres and style of music were introduced and popularized. Conjunto Philadelphia sought to capture the music of Pre-Revolutionary Cuba and recreate it through their performances. Their selection of songs captured the most prominent genres of the time and encompassed the styles of music of Son, Cha-Cha-Chá and Bolero. The instruments they used lent a flavor of Cuban culture…

create a gothic romance complimented with shades of horror. Therefore, when you judge it as a gothic romance, you have one hell of a film. Many of the elements in this film will prove to you that this movie is in fact a member of the gothic romance genre. To get a sense of the story, after Edith’s father is brutally murdered, Edith and Thomas marry and return to his home in England. They arrive at Allerdale Hall, Sir Thomas’s rickety mansion, which sits atop a red clay mine thus giving it the…

to have a movie night is easy trying to decide which type of movie is the hard part. Movies are categorized by Genre’s a few being horror, thriller, and romance. Anytime I get a chance to sit down and watch a movie I typically choose horror. The Genre horror comes with plenty of sub categories for the viewer to have a better selection of what type of movie they want to watch. My top three favorite subcategories are slasher, mystery, and paranormal. Slasher films have been around for decades…