But with their mix of Puerto Ricans, Irish, Italians and Afro-Americans they have also given birth to a rich culture and many important genres of music.
Ukiyo-e, ( Japanese: "pictures of the floating world") one of the most important genres of art of the Tokugawa period (1603 1867) in Japan.
Several key terms and important genres of artistic and social performance will be engaged; the course will draw critical and disciplinary methods from anthropology and ethnography, from the theory of dance and theater, from literary and cultural theory.
Al-Khwārizmī's work is a confusing mixture of Indian, Persian, and Greek tables and techniques, but it helped establish an important genre of the zīj.
Throughout the 18th century, portraiture remained the most important genre of British painting, despite the efforts of Reynolds and Gainsborough in their "fancy pictures".
He wrote and spoke exceptionally well even the shortest of his proclamations, an important genre of the time, have his unique stamp and style, and his most important speeches and letters deserve their frequent quotation.
Another important genre of religious work was the vision, exemplified in Fís Adamnáín (The Vision of Adamnan), whose soul is represented as leaving his body for a time to visit heaven and hell under the guidance of an angel.
(Formerly CLASSGRK 112). The funeral oration (epitaphios logos) is an important genre of speech whose performance in Classical Athens involved central aspects of the polis' life, such as collective memory, interpretation of the past, civic values, politics and, indeed, the art of speaking well.
This is a richly illustrated study of an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes are actually disguised portraits that celebrate an individual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in an open effort to win recognition, support, and social status.
A second important genre of theories of laws of nature holds that the laws are in some sense necessary.
