"We've discovered that, just like cellphones, customers want multiple styles, multiple colors, multiple types.
Multiple styles were represented among the year's most successful albums.
Mr. Ruby, who was born in 1972 and lives in Los Angeles, toys freely with multiple styles.
Yet Mr. Hunt patched together multiple styles in each song, and he went much deeper than mimicking old arrangements.
Even when they dressed like punks, band members were proficient musicians; they have to be to slip in and out of multiple styles.
"Many say that Brooklyn's diversity is reflected in clusters of ethnic restaurants and multiple styles of architecture," she writes.
They have shown they can play multiple styles as they matched every Colgate offensive burst with one of their own when the two teams played this year.
Owning one designed by Dwight James Baum, who built dozens of homes in Fieldston in multiple styles, is a point of pride — as well as a selling point.
"So You Think" rewards proficiency in multiple styles, and aspiring dancers are paying attention to this, with ballet dancers dipping into hip-hop, for example, and vice versa.
What's interesting about her work is not its general post-Minimalist "look," which feels somewhat dated in a New York context now, but the way it uses elements of multiple styles to bring histories, past and present, together.
