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Preliminaries The first song whose rhythmic style of singing predates rapping was already published in the 1920s. About 50 years later,...

In this volume, university researchers and urban elementary teacher-researchers coauthor chapters on the teachers' year-long inquiries, on a range of...

Music Genres and Corporate Cultures explores the seemingly haphazard workings of the music industry, tracing the uneasy relationship between economics...

This essay is about the difficulties which a translator has to face when translating texts of different genres and the...

Jeanette Wintersons novels are a combination of history, fictional stories, fairy-tales and female romance. She has an experimental style which...

An introduction to the world of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), a fascinating and complex figure in European literary modernism and avant-garde....

In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy,...

Introduction: Genres on the Web: Concepts, Research Questions, Methods and Standards EAN/ISBN : 9789048191789 Publisher(s): Springer Netherlands, Springer Sc......

There's a strong interest in reading for pleasure or self-improvement in America, as shown by the popularity of Harry Potter,...

During the 1990s, musical genres became more commercialized than ever-and that was just one of the many changes that characterized...

The word genre derives from French and means type and character. Generally speaking genres are rank schemata's. Discussions about film...

Modern viewers take for granted the pictorial conventions present in easel paintings and engraved prints of such subjects as landscapes...

The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction...

African Americans' historical roots are encapsulated in the lyrics, melodies, and rhythms of their music. In the 18th and 19th...

It can be said that George Clooney has crafted his artistic brand through a mixture of smart career choices of...

Folk and fairy tales exist in all cultures and are at the heart of civilization. This massive Encyclopedia gives students...

Until now, popular novelist James Clavell has not been recognized for his literary achievements and his contributions to cross-cultural understanding....

Ken Follett had the purest of motives when he began writing fiction: he did it for the money. But after...

Redefining Mainstream Popular Music is a collection of seventeen essays that critically examines the idea of the "e,mainstream"e, in and...

The Television Handbook is a critical introduction to the practice and theory of television. The book examines the state of...