That comes naturally to Mel Brooks, of course, whose favorite genre, in films like "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein," is parody itself, the most knowing of genres, always building upon the joke behind the joke.
It contains 12 tracks and will touch upon genres including house, techno, electro, and Italo disco.
Over time, my listening habits adapted to the meditative experience of sinking into a DJ mix, dragging me further away from genres that rely upon traditional songwriting structures.
TimHannigan kicked off a fascinating conversation about the travel and nature writing genres and publishing: Once upon a time – circa 1996 – travel literature was enjoying a publishing boom.
It's called "The New Yorker Presents," and it's built upon the genres that the The New Yorker has developed for ninety-one years: the humorous fiction of Shouts & Murmurs, the roaming investigations of A Reporter at Large, the on-the-wing curiosity of The Talk of the Town.
"What I wanted to do," she said, "was talk about the different genres that we rely upon in our advocacy for the humanities, many of which have their place in 19th-century thinking about the university and education, when they were putting together that idea that many of us feel is now in peril – that idea of higher education as a public good".
"One of the beauties of having a music video channel is the low-cost structure involved," says Masters. "I can see the creation of 10 to 12 very narrowly targeted subdivisions of a music channel, based upon music genres, because people tend to be genre-oriented in their listening tastes.
His personal and band work touches upon several genres, including orchestral, rock music, hip hop music, soul music, and funk.
The Wiggles have written new music each year since their inception; they have tended to sequester themselves for a month each summer and write three albums' worth of original children's music based on simple concepts familiar to young children, and upon several genres of music and types of instruments.
Not many living artists other than Albarn can draw upon so many genres and heartfelt moments when plucking from their back catalogue.
