Identify and Describe Patterns in the Genre’s Features

1. What content is typically included or excluded? How is the content treated? What sorts of examples are used? What counts as evidence (personal testimony, facts, etc.)?

The content included is usually things that happen in life, like going through something bad, making mistakes and even positive things like tomorrow is a new day, God is looking out for you and such. Examples are like breakups, bad days, metaphors, analogies. The types of quotes I am analyzing don’t include common sayings and quotes by famous people. It is mostly just regular inspirational quotes by random people that is part of the content. This content doesn’t require evidence really. [...]

My tentative “underappreciated” genre is magical realism. The most interesting thing about this genre is how it adds magical elements to real life stories. It’s significant because it’s a very interesting genre that has rather distinct aspects to it. Magical realism can be best defined as a literary style or genre that is closely associated with Latin America that incorporates mythical elements in realistic fiction. This genre as stated before was usually seen by older Latin American writers, and has its ties to movements such as Realism. It is used by adding fictional and mythical elements to a life like story, for example in the movie Sky High, one of the characters has the ability to turn into a small furry hamster. [...]

Being born and raised in the south comes with its own vocabulary and accent or as we southerners say when people visit “you’ll wake up with the south in your mouth”. There are just some things that can’t be said other than with how you heard it explained growing up. These country sayings are used to describe someone, something, or a situation that would take too long to explain or that paints an image in your head to show emotion better than people can sometimes. I find it is most often used around family, friends, neighbors, or other southerners at events like church, festivals, or within the home. It is more commonly spoken than written but some people love the sayings so much you can find them as signs to hang in the home or even in letters written to others, or lyrics in a country song. [...]

SPAGHETTI WESTERN

I love this sub genre because, not a lot of people really like this sub genre. I had an unappreciated sense of what happened in western times, and usual has a very interesting story. The rural, survivalist, nature of a cowboy that chases down a villain somehow, is fascinating to me. The irony that follows in most spaghetti western shows gives a really good story. In most spaghetti westerns the protagonist tries and become friends with the villain of the town, before he saves the entire town.

Some examples could be seen as the dollars trilogy, which was a series of three movies that starred Clint Eastwood.

https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Essential_Top_20_Films

http://most-wanted-western-movies.com/spaghetti-western-movies/ [...]

Introduce Your Genre

1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)

… The labeling on packaging (only food/drink at the moment), not totally set.

2. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?

… -I realize that many times I have found myself standing in the grocery store trying to decide on one brand of food or the other.

-Much of the time, without realizing it, I am choosing food based on which one has the more appealing packaging, or describes its contest better than the competitor

-Does the packaging help guide us in the right direction or is it actually misleading? [...]

As a hopeful future journalist for the equestrian world I have chosen equine journalism as my genre for the upcoming paper. Being a part of the horse community I don’t necessarily think that this genre is underappreciated, perhaps it is when compared to more acknowledged journalism genre like sports or pop culture. My interest in this genre not only stems from my 10+ years of experience I have from being involved in the community but also from my hope to become a successful equine journalist one day possibly working for Noelle Floyd and interviewing top riders as well as getting to travel to different competitions. A valuable reason to pay attention to this genre is that it can provide more knowledge and awareness to individuals who have no experience about the sport and the audience can also gain an insight to what goes on inside the “wealthy” high-society community. [...]

Introduce Your Genre

1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)

• EDM music is a genre with a ton of subgenres: dubstep, moombahton, house, trance, etc.
• There aren’t many lyrics, it is mostly a combination of sounds with different drops and depending on the sounds and drops used would classify under each subgenre

2. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?

• Most people use EDM to describe all the subgenres when they are referring to them— “I like EDM”.
  • That statement has zero context and the very simple fact that someone said that proves that they really don’t understand the variety of choice under the EDM umbrella
• People like certain artists, but don’t like other ones.