genre-bending
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]- The subversion of tropes associated with a particular artistic genre or the synthesis of multiple genres.
- 2005, October 7. "Internet the source for the scores", Chicago Tribune.
- "For "Corpse Bride", the idiosyncratic composer has drawn on his affinity for musical genre-bending."
- 2015, Kasper Bro Larsen, The Gospel of John as Genre Mosaic, page 284:
- "After Attridge has convincingly established the fact of "genre bending" in John's text, he sensibly asks the question why it is there."
- 2005, October 7. "Internet the source for the scores", Chicago Tribune.
Adjective
[edit]genre-bending (comparative more genre-bending, superlative most genre-bending)
- Characterized by subversion of generic tropes or fusion of disparate genres.
- 2016, January 22. Rebecca Strong, "The Challenges of Marketing a Genre-Bending Novel." Publishers Weekly.
- 2019 April 5, Lisa Respers France, Billy Ray Cyrus sings about diamond rings and Maseratis in Lil Nas X's genre-bending song, CNN: