The aim of this paper is to better understand the landscape of musical genres. We use public tag data (folksonomies) to these discover genres, and make use of APIs from the music site Last.fm gather tag data for songs and artists. To be comprehensive, a uniform sampling of tag documents will be used. API calls are slow, however, while there are about 100 million artists on the database; so we s...

Connor et al. (2008) mention “specifying textual requirements of genres” (p.12) as one of the reasons which have motivated researchers in the analysis of writing. Members of each genre should be able to produce and retrieve these textual requirements appropriately to be considered communicatively proficient. One of the textual requirements of genres is regularities of specific forms and content...

Emirati poetry is considered the fruit of an Arabic environment that was drawn to formal and colloquial (or “folk poetry” as defined by critics). That what common within people. The poets had innate ability express thoughts a person who lived integrated with land peoples’ homes found in original poetry. beginning Emirates around 1920s. During time, several pioneer shined, including Mubarak Al A...

The paper analyzes the novel “Th e Last Prophet” by Leonid Mosendz focusing on its sources, genre nature and structure, genesis of John Baptist’s image. There were objective individual reasons for Mosendz’s appeal to biblical myth Baptist, which have been explained. Attention is drawn problematic areas in interpretation critics. Among sources that writer turned while working “Jewish Antiquties”...

This study explored predictors of engagement with specific video game genres, and degree of problem play experienced by players of specific genres, during the early life course. Video game players ages 18-29 (n = 692) were recruited in and around video game retail outlets, arcades, conventions, and other video game related contexts in New York City. Participants completed a Computer-Assisted Pe...

Matko Peić presented his travels through Egypt, Israel, China, India, Japan, the Philippines, most of Europe and whole Croatia in several travelogues – Skitnje (Strolls, 1965), Jesen u Poljskoj (Autumn Poland, 1969), Crno zlato (Black Gold, 1974), Ljubav na putu. Od Drave do Jadrana (Love on Road. From Drava to Adriatic, 1984) Evropske skitnje (European Strolls, 1985) which earned him status on...