genres
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The creator of “The Twilight Zone” used the genres of supernatural fantasy and science fiction to address social issues that other programs avoided.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"Afrobeats just keeps evolving, it keeps growing and it just keeps getting better... I want it to be one of the top genres in the world."
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The box-office failure of “Digger” over the weekend shows how hard it remains for movie studios to pack theaters with original films in genres other than horror, Ben Fritz notes for the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
That’s why we love dancehall, Afrobeats, amapiano and now as we’ve seen in the last years, Afro House, and these other genres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The transition from the chaotic, individualistic, rough-and-ready nature of 1920s jazz to a more streamlined form of swing in the 1930s was mirrored in other musical genres.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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