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| | Genre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In artforms such as music, painting, and sculpture, genre tends to be determined by format and style. |  | | A genre is a division of a particular form of art according to criteria particular to that form. |  | | The scope of the word "genre" is usually confined to art and culture. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre
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| | Music genre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Modern American art music composers have often used elements of jazz in their compositions. |  | | John Zorn, for example, a musician whose work has covered a wide range of genres, wrote in Arcana: Musicians on Music that genres are tools used to "commodify and commercialize an artist's complex personal vision". |  | | Categorizing music by genre does make it easier to trace threads through music history, and makes it easier for individuals to find artists that they enjoy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre#Melodic_music
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| | genre - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about genre |
 | | For instance, the novel is a literary genre and the historical novel is a genre of the novel. |  | | An early master of genre is Peter Brueghel the Elder; and the peasant life of the Netherlands inspired further examples in the paintings of Teniers and Adriaen Brouwer. |  | | Genre is also a term specifically applied to paintings which depict familiar scenes of everyday life. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/genre
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| | ArtLex on Genre and Genres |
 | | This sculpture of Aphrodite is amusing Eros with a spinning top illustrates a tendency towards genre sculpture which was characteristic of Hellenistic art. |  | | - Genre painting is the depiction of subjects and scenes from everyday life, ordinary folk and common activities. |  | | is a group portrait (and self-portrait too) that satisfies the requirements of a genre painting as well. |
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http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/g/genre.html
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| | Music genre - Factbites |
 | | Now that Genre has grown in the Mid-Ohio Valley for the past 5 years here with all the great musical talent and network of supporters it is time to spread out to the south corners of Ohio and incorporate other musicians within the tri-state of both sides of Ohio. |  | | And this $500 million genre, averaging 18% annual growth the last half of the decade, continues to account for a larger share of music sales than the classical (3.3%), jazz (1.9%) and new age (0.6%) genres combined. |  | | The genre was made world famous by Bob Marley who popularized the style on a world-wide basis. |
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http://www.factbites.com/topics/Musical-genre
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| | Genre |
 | | In arts such as music, painting, and sculpture genre is almost mostly determined by format and style. |  | | This page attempts to describe (rather than prescribe) the concept of genre as categories of artistic creations: literary, musical, cinematic and so forth. |  | | Are genres timeless Platonic essences or ephemeral, time-bound entities? |
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http://www.jahsonic.com/Genre.html
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| | Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction |
 | | Given the genre's flexibility and expansiveness, we welcome a variety of works—ranging from personal essays and memoirs to literary journalism and personal criticism. |  | | Congratulations to Beth Richards, who won first prize in the 2nd Annual Editors' Prize Essay Contest for her essay "The Fishing Story." Elizabeth Dodd was runner-up for her essay "The Scribe in the Woods." Look for their essays in our Spring 2006 (8.1) issue. |  | | In addition to contemporary nonfiction, Fourth Genre features interviews with prominent nonfiction writers, roundtable discussions of topical genre issues, mini-essays by selected photographers and visual artists, letters from readers, and reviews and capsule summaries of current books. |
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http://msupress.msu.edu/FourthGenre
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| | genre |
 | | In Italy genre elements were present in Carpaccio's and Caravaggio's paintings, but not until the 18th cent. |  | | The intimate interior in eighteenth-century French genre painting. |  | | Although practiced in ancient art, as shown by Pompeiian frescoes, and in the Middle Ages, genre was not recognized as worthy and independent subject matter until the 16th cent. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0820496.html
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| | Genre |
 | | Genres are also found in art, drama, novel, music and other types of media (e.g. |  | | Crime genre often exhibits aspects of modernity and explores power relations of modern society. |  | | Studios like to repeat past successes, but exploiting genre is no guarantee of success in itself. |
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http://www.northallertoncoll.org.uk/media/genretheory.htm
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| | Genre |
 | | This article’s outline of genre is based on the North-American tradition. |  | | It is inspired by Carolyn R. Miller’s seminal essay ‘Genre as Social Action’ (Miller, 1984) in which genre is conceptualized as ‘typified rhetorical actions based in recurrent situations’. |  | | The Sydney School of genre is based in Michael A. Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics. |
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http://www.db.dk/jni/lifeboat/Concepts/Genre.htm
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| | Lost Garden: Nintendo's Genre Innovation Strategy: Thoughts on the Revolution's new controller |
 | | The amount of money genre kings such as Halo 2, Half Life, Warcraft, Grand Turismo and other rake in is an inspiration to both developers, gamers and publishers everywhere. |  | | Also, his talk about Nintendo and how they "create genres" in the early stages because it is the most profitable is so wildly untrue it stopped me dead. |  | | Super Smash Bros. Melee is a genre king, yes, but only of a subgenre which consists more or less entirely of Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee. |
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http://lostgarden.com/2005/09/nintendos-genre-innovation-strategy.html
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| | Genre - Free Encyclopedia |
 | | This page attempts to describe the concept of genre as it applies to artistic creations: literary, musical, cinematic and so forth. |  | | In the arts, it refers to the traditional divisions of art forms from a single field of activity (e.g. |  | | For this reason, "genre" is such a flexible and mutable term that it has been applied to almost every possible subdivision of artistic endeavour. |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/g/ge/genre.html
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| | Genre Theory |
 | | Ritual- Sees the genre as an exchange between industry and audience, an exchange through which a culture speaks to itself. |  | | The concept of genre, when applied to film and television conceptualizes these texts strictly as products. |  | | The Growth of Styles." Journal of the University Film Association, 30, 9-14. |
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http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Speech/rccs/theory27.htm
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| | eil.com / esprit - genre search |
 | | Click on the music genre of your choice to view the artists listed in that category |
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http://eil.com/shop/genre/genre_type.asp
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| | IMDb Genre Browser |
 | | A genre is simply a categorization of certain types of art based upon their style, form, or content. |  | | Click on the genre links below to go to the biggest and best collection of films sorted by their type. |  | | Of course, some films defy such ready qualification, so realize that these are generalizations. |
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http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Genres
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| | Genre painting |
 | | History painters like Boucher had so few qualms about tackling this genre, which flourished throughout the century, that it was sometimes difficult to discern the border between grand genre and petit genre. |  | | Thus, despite his efforts to be admitted as a history painter, Greuze was only accepted by the Academy in the genre-scene category. |  | | Sometimes termed the petit genre, or the genre scene, it was often anecdotal and light-hearted. |
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http://www.culture.gouv.fr/lumiere/documents/files/peinture_genre.html
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| | Counter-Attack: Glossary of Literary Terms by Michele Fry |
 | | Georgian Poetry - This is a term that was coined by Edward Marsh in 1911 in order to signal the poetic reaction against Victorianism and to proclaim Marsh's belief that 'English poetry is now once again putting on new strength and beauty', as he said in his Preface to the first volume, Georgian Poetry 1911-1912. |  | | Genre - The French term for a species, type or class of composition. |  | | The art of the epigram was cultivated in France and Germany by Voltaire, Schiller and others during the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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http://www.sassoonery.demon.co.uk/litterms.htm
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| | genre - OneLook Dictionary Search |
 | | Words similar to genre: kind, category, class, literary genre, style, type, writing style, more... |  | | genre : IRFAO Rock Art Glossary [home, info] |  | | Phrases that include genre: literary genre, 'real robot' genre, action genre, biblical genre, computer and video games by genre, more... |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=genre&ls=a
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| | peterme.com: Pissing Off Librarians: My Talk on Document Genres |
 | | Why is genre never discussed on any website project I'm working on? |  | | This allows us to build templates for the document types or genre quite easily. |  | | Genre is essential in helping people set expectations for 1) information and 2) use of that document, and while we have very many explicit affordances for such things in "the real world," online all we usually have is a link... |
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http://www.peterme.com/archives/000460.html
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| | genre. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
 | | A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content: his six String Quartets
the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's (Time). |  | | A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life. |  | | A type or class: Emaciated famine victims
on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent (Helen Kitchen). |
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http://www.bartleby.com/61/68/G0086800.html
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| | Welcome to Bitter Films |
 | | "...the standout was Don Hertzfeldt's Genre, a black comic animation piece in which a cartoonist subjects his Mr.Bill-like character to various cruelties and cinematic scenarios. |  | | view pictures of GENRE in production in our Gallery. |  | | Like many of his films, "Genre" was undertaken without a complete script, giving Don the freedom to make things up as he goes. |
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http://www.bitterfilms.com/genre.html
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| | Ectophiles' Guide - by Genre |
 | | Please select a genre below or to the right to see all artists in that genre. |  | | Try a mirror -- Subscribe to the Guide -- |
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| | Glossary: Genre |
 | | Similarities of form within members of a genre is a feature of culture. |  | | This page is part of the Hypertext Bible Commentary - Amos, if you have reached it as a standalone page, to view it in context, go to www.bible.gen.nz |
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| | "On the Net: Genre" by James Patrick Kelly |
 | | However, the marketing of Asimovs as an SF magazine does not always address the genre intentions of the writers herein. |  | | Havent SF artists been crossing boundaries for some time? |  | | The theory of interstitial arts and its subset, slipstream, is that these forms inhabit the territory between our genre and various other genres. |
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http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0401/onthenet.shtml
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books, Subjects, Fiction, Genre : General, Adventure Stories, Erotica, ... |
 | | Amazon.co.uk: Books, Subjects, Fiction&; Genre : General, Adventure Stories, Erotica, Family Sagas, Film & Television Tie-In |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/275034
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| | Genre |
 | | To divide his audience ideologically from the outset is to invite political fights that will end the so-called "press honeymoon" early. |  | | For example, the novel is a broad genre of prose. |  | | To study genre is to study the form and content of a message as appropriate to a rhetorical situation. |
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http://rhetorica.net/genre.htm
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| | Genres - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music |
 | | We've designed these short genre walk-throughs to provide a little history and context for Epitonic's genres. |  | | Genres - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music |  | | While we're not big fans of genre classifications here at Epitonic, we understand that they can be helpful in sorting through the music on the site. |
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http://www.epitonic.com/genres
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| | Heavy Metal Music by Genre Including Death Metal and Black Metal and Grindcore and Thrash |
 | | Cataclysmic and industrial in its use of gritty organic textures, heavy metal went through several stages including excesses of commercial stadium rock before returning to its roots in alienated and rough but majestic music. |  | | Originally a blues/rock band, Black Sabbath became a proto-metal band with morbid and yet poetic songs, evoking for many a return to European Romanticism of several centuries before. |  | | While this music was highly complex and often inventive in structure, it remained roughly within the confines of rock-based mainstream music and passed its technique on to the underground death metal, thrash and grindcore to follow. |
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http://www.anus.com/metal/about/genre.html
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| | What Are Classifications and Genres |
 | | Type in the name of the new genre. |  | | The genre table will be shown in datasheet view. |  | | The primary genre is the one by which you want to categorize the movie. |
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| | Movie Genres Chart |
 | | Interesting to us writers for its resurgence with a twist in the Demi Moore thriller Ghost. |  | | This type of story, popular in the past, has been somewhat supplanted by the horror genre. |  | | From the standpoint of the way I prefer to define a "genre" -- that is, defining the genre according to the nature of the central struggle -- this type of film is more of a stylistic categorization. |
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http://www.createyourscreenplay.com/genrechart.htm
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| | THE GENRE ONLINE.NET INTERVIEW - WRITER & DIRECTOR DAVID TWOHY |
 | | Upon learning the name of my website, he asked me what genres I covered and I told him that I cover all genres, but specifically I prefer sci-fi, horror, and fantasy. |  | | Writer and Director David Twohy has earned a legion of genre film fans from his popular sci-fi films like “The Arrival” and “Pitch Black” as well as the World War II ghost story, “Below.” With the official DVD release of “The Chronicles Of Riddick” hitting shops on and offline on Tuesday, November 16, 2004, Mr. |  | | Twohy was kind enough to give a few minutes of his time to answer a few fan questions for GENRE ONLINE.NET readers. |
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http://www.genreonline.net/Genre_Online_Interview_David_Twohy.html
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| | List of musicians by genre Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |
 | | List of musicians by genre Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |  | | See also: Musicians, list of people by occupation, Musical genre, Street musician. |  | | List of musicians in the second wave of punk music (ca. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Genre Search Results |
 | | A list by karen7060, Adult C. writing teacher MA. |  | | Modern Genre Theory (Longman Critical Readers) ~ David Duff (Editor) -- (Paperback - November 17, 1999) |  | | Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings (Cambridge Applied Linguistics) ~ John Swales -- (Paperback - November 8, 1990) |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/external-search?tag=booksandvideo&keyword=Genre&mode=books-uk
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| | INTEGRITY/CEPTUAL INSTITUTE - Genre Works (Other Writers) |
 | | Please be sure to take a look at those essays. |  | | Please advise CI of any creative material which you feel might be appropriately added to this grouping of Genre Works, which are only initially limited in the language of expression and era represented. |  | | We appreciate your visiting this site and encourage you to spend time over the hours, days, weeks, and months, to savor each author's mindways so that you can find representations and applications in your own endeavors, and indeed, creative exploration of life. |
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http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/genre.htm
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| | Open Directory - Games: Video Games |
 | | Open Site - A volunteer-run encyclopedia categorized by genre. |  | | Genre and the Video Game - An analysis of genre categorization as applied to video games in contrast with books and film, with definitions and examples. |  | | Game Config.co.uk - TCP and UDP port settings for popular online games for Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. |
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| | Magnatune Musical Genres |
 | | Moods: music grouped by an style or mood. |  | | Other Genres: any music genre that's performed with dignity, integrity and passion. |  | | Artists: read all about us and then submit your music to Magnatune. |
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http://magnatune.com/genres
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| | The UVicWriter's Guide: Genres: An Introduction |
 | | A genre is a particular type of literature, a literary form. |  | | A genre is a form like a novel, |  | | A distinction is often made between a genre and a mode. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/LTGenreIntro.html
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| | Genre |
 | | In the United States, where television production is centered in Hollywood, this reliance on genre is as old as the film studio system, in which certain studios or units within studios, were closely identified with particular types of films--westerns, musicals, gangster narratives. |  | | The French term "genre," meaning "gender," or "kind," is applied in various contexts throughout the study of an audiovisual medium. |  | | Genres drawn from specific cultural contexts are developed to express explicit social and cultural concerns. |
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http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/genre/genre.htm
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| | Writing Genres Devitt |
 | | This study’s research stems from the fields of rhetoric, composition, linguistics, communication studies, literary studies, and critical pedagogy, and works from rhetorical and social constructionist theory. |  | | This theoretical approach sees genres as types of rhetorical actions that people perform and encounter everyday in academic, professional, and social interactions. |  | | Beginning by defining genre as a typified rhetorical action occurring at the nexus of situation, culture, and other genres, Devitt argues that genre highlights variations in texts necessary for creativity, a treatment that opposes the traditional view of genre as constraining and homogenizing. |
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http://www.siu.edu/~siupress/titles/s04_titles/devitt_genres.htm
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| | What is genre? |
 | | Genre is a category used to classify discourse and literary works, usually by form, technique, or content. |  | | This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003. |
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http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsGenre.htm
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| | Patterns for Life: Structure, Genre, and Theology in Psalms |
 | | In all study of psalms, the fact that they were prayers set to music, intended to be sung by the worshipper, must be kept in mind. |  | | Yet, the concern with the genre of the Psalms has itself proven a valuable tool in understanding the Psalms, simply because we understand that the form of the psalms is related to their function. |  | | So, there is not as much focus on the "original" life setting of a psalm, except in limited ways as some continue to explore the liturgical setting of the psalms. |
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http://www.cresourcei.org/psalmgenre.html
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| | Genre Band |
 | | Genre songs in movie AB-Negative due in theatres summer 2006. |  | | 2006 - Genre continues their nationwide journey in support of their 20 song debut CD Playing to standing room only crowds in New York, enthusuastic crowds in Texas and enjoying an exploding fan base in the Los Angeles / Southern California area. |  | | Celebrity Fans - Genre makes new friends at NAMM 2006. |
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http://www.genresound.com
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| | Music Genre Sampler @ DataDragon |
 | | The genre sampler will take you on a tour of some of the more popular musical genres by first giving a general overview and then by listing well-known musicians and a sound sample. |  | | The Genre Sampler, Created by Kevin Lux for |
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http://datadragon.com/education/genres
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| | Romance Genre |
 | | He'd woken with a gun to his head after this loca redhead sneaked into his cabin and it had just gotten worse from there. |  | | Goddesses of Love: How the Romance Genre Has Embraced Feminine Myths and Archetypes PART 2 |  | | Without looking, she knew he glowed, a body-halo of pure celestial energy. |
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http://www.suite101.com/topics/page.cfm/526
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| | The Incredible World of Bowling Noir: An Essay by William Preston Robertson |
 | | The bowling noir genre had returned to its Scarface roots. |  | | Even the coolest of genres may be burdened with an idiot son. |  | | What makes Double Indemnity a bowling noir is the scene in which Fred MacMurray, quite nearly febrile with the realization that Barbara Stanwyck is seducing him into a plot to murder her husband, delivers the following jittery voice-over: |
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http://members.aol.com/bobbuttman/bowlingnoir/bowlingnoir.htm
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| | Genre Magazine |
 | | Reproduction of material from any GENRE pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. |
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