This genre of work, known as "altered-book art," is not a new phenomenon.
We have a whole genre of work I like to call Rust Belt porn, a fascination with rust and decay for its own sake.
The opera is a singspiel — the German genre of works, usually comic, that incorporate spoken dialogue — and is therefore a genetic ancestor of modern-day musical theater.
His program was an inventive homage to the étude, the French word for "study," the genre of works pioneered by Czerny that were written to develop a pianist's technique.
During her 36 years in Wuppertal, Bausch fundamentally altered perceptions of what a dance piece could be, creating a genre of work — tanztheater, or dance theater — in which overtly theatrical, apparently disconnected and frequently absurd episodes showed her performers telling stories, enacting odd rituals and obsessions, and living out their fears and hopes before the audience's eyes.
Reza Aslan's best-selling book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, belongs to that genre of works devoted to unearthing the "real historical Jesus".
The three men recently got together at New York's Crosby Street Hotel to discuss improv, genre and the allure of working small.
Another advantage of working in genre is that there aren't just built-in audiences, there are built-in channels of distribution as well.
In the current study, published this week in PLOS ONE, a computer accurately predicted the genre of fiction works about 50% of the time, much higher than the 17% expected from random guessing.
There is a sub-genre of work that takes the team as its point of departure and a single season as its timeframe, but the best tend to stray from the dynamics of the squad itself.
