Sept. 11 anniversary specials have been such a television staple since 2002 that by now they constitute their own small genre.
Page B12 EDDIE BLAZONCZYK, 70 He was a polka singer and bandleader who led bouncing, swaying, beer-hoisting dances for generations of Americans as one of that small genre's biggest fish.
"Emergency," the 1970s pioneer of this small genre, extended the action into the hospital, where Julie London's Nurse Dixie was as much of an attraction as the hunky paramedics.
But her tone when I asked skeptically about the baby in the bin definitely conveyed the idea, "You have met the general public, haven't you?" "Cruising Attitude" is the latest in a small genre of books over the years that I think of as Flight Attendant Anomie.
There is even a small genre of confessional literature, such as Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis by the former New York Times editor Howell Raines, which deals with divorce and death as fishermen usually deal with them - by buggering off to the river, where the quiet concentration positively encourages introspection and thoughtfulness.
And it's not a small genre.
But it has rarely (if ever) had the kind of breakout hit with name recognition that would cause the kind of escape velocity needed to take a work from being a hit in a small genre to being a mainstream sensation, hopefully taking the genre with it.
Although it has been shown that existing large-scale music taxonomies are inconsistent with each other [75], several works have addressed the problem of automatic classification for small-scale genre taxonomies based on the acoustic properties of music signals (see, e.g., [33]).
But these were also the two smallest genres; in my OpusData spreadsheet, just 12 films were categorized as "concert/performance," and 11 were called "westerns".
The academy did away with awards for male and female performers in all of the categories, and pruned or consolidated prizes for smaller genres like Latin jazz and Native American, Cajun, Tejano and Hawaiian music.
