FOR a comparatively young genre, pop music is suspiciously full of "historic" moments.
As these are two of the hottest young genre directors working in Hollywood today, few blinked an eyelid.
Hip-hop is such a young genre, yet it's taken on so many different forms in its short lifespan.
As the sharp political fragmentation continues, the Mauritanian art scene is also undergoing a period of transition: between a traditional, commercial genre that can still be heard at weddings and other social events, and a young genre that speaks a language of protest and dissent to demand freedom and social justice.
In the past five years, we have also seen the emergence of a recognisable new genre, young adult, drawn from colossal multi-volume bestsellers targeted at teens: these fanbases are formidably loyal, intelligent, opinionated, with a sense of self and identity; the product driven by social media.
It seemed a good bet that Brooklyn Rider, the young, genre-bending string quartet, would turn its Zankel Hall concert on Monday evening into a Halloween party, but it was hard to know for sure at first.
In a calculated move Metsu would soon abandon these scenes of pious, impoverished elders for a younger, wealthier genre: the so-called "high life" painting, in which well-dressed men and women make music and exchange letters or meaningful glances.
Ironically, the "young adult" genre has been striking this same balance for some time, from the Hunger Games onwards, perhaps appealing to younger audiences less hung up on the old-fashioned binaries, gender, genre or otherwise.
Adult authors writing in the young adult genre tend to write about what they would have liked to know or hear when they were younger.
I Capture the Castle has been republished as part of the Originals, a new series celebrating the first and the best in the young adult genre from Penguin.
