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  1. Cultural Divergence in popular music: the increasing diversity of music

    Ultimately, this paper describes trends in popular music across a large sample of countries, giving a more clear perspective of the cultural dynamics in the digital era. Research background Winner ...

  2. Mainstream popular music research: a musical update

    Against the backdrop of the cultural knowledge circulating at any given time, mainstream popular music is a particular praxis formation of producing and perceiving music that incorporates specific ways of collective thinking and action as well as underlying logics (Jost 2019, 20:40-20:50).

  3. Journal of Popular Music Studies

    It aims to present popular music scholarship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including history, sociology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and communication. Learn more about Journal of Popular Music Studies here . eISSN: 1533-1598. Published Quarterly - March, June, September, December. Impact Factor: 0.2.

  4. The evolution of popular music: USA 1960-2010

    The flux of fashion is especially obvious for popular music. While much has been written about the origin and evolution of pop, most claims about its history are anecdotal rather than scientific in nature. To rectify this, we investigate the US Billboard Hot 100 between 1960 and 2010. Using music information retrieval and text-mining tools, we ...

  5. Popular Music and Society

    Popular Music and Society is published five times per year and is a peer-reviewed academic journal supported by an international editorial board. All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

  6. Journal of New Music Research

    The Journal of New Music Research (JNMR) publishes material which increases our understanding of music and musical processes by systematic, scientific and technological means. Research published in the journal is innovative, empirically grounded and often, but not exclusively, uses quantitative methods. Articles are both musically relevant and scientifically rigorous, giving full technical ...

  7. (PDF) POP MUSIC ANALYSIS IN THE 21 ST CENTURY: An ...

    In mediating meaning in popular music studies, the implication is that the music teacher, researcher, and critic must be knowledgeable in semiotics, linguistics, and metalanguage (Agawu, 2003 ...

  8. Analysing popular music: theory, method and practice

    Popular music analysis-why? One of the initial problems for any new field of study is the attitude of incredulity it meets. ... 'Film music, mood music and popular music research', stencilled paper from Gothenburg University Musicology Department, no. 8002 (Gothenburg)Google Scholar. Tarasti, E. 1978. Myth and Music — A Semiotic Approach ...

  9. Journal of Research in Music Education: Sage Journals

    Journal of Research in Music Education is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal comprising reports of original research related to music teaching and learning. The wide range of topics includes various aspects of music pedagogy, history, and philosophy, and addresses vocal, instrumental, and general music at all levels, from early childhood through adult.

  10. Music & Science: Sage Journals

    SUBMIT PAPER. Music & Science is a new peer-reviewed open access online journal published by Sage in association with SEMPRE. The journal's point of departure is the idea that science—or, more accurately, the sciences—can help us to make sense of music and its significance in our lives. Our goal is to be truly interdisciplinary: to give ...

  11. Music Research Annual

    Music Research Annual is the first peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing review essays from the full range of academic disciplines that study music. Each article explores the current state of scholarship on a key topic within a discipline or interdisciplinary juncture and charts ways forward to new research. Led by a group of renowned ...

  12. (PDF) The power of music: Its impact on the intellectual, social and

    Research in music education has consistently underscored the efficacy of musical repetition in improving memory and learning outcomes among diverse learner populations (Hallam, 2010). Music ...

  13. Quantitative Sentiment Analysis of Lyrics in Popular Music

    Popular music has been changing significantly over the years, revealing clear, audible differences when compared with songs written in other eras. A pop music composition is normally made of two parts—the tune and the lyrics. Here we use a digital humanities and data science approach to examine how lyrics changed between the 1950's and the more recent years, and apply quantitative analysis ...

  14. Musical Preference: Role of Personality and Music-Related Acoustic

    The inherent ambiguity of genre classification has been a persistent concern in the field of music preference and personality research. Aucouturier and Pachet (2003, p.83) have stated that genre is "intrinsically ill-defined", and described genre as "intentional and extensional" concepts that are mismatched in the real world—how we interpret genre (intentional) and how we expect ...

  15. Home

    Popular music fans, as well as scholars of recording history and technology and students of the intersections between music and cultural history will all find this book to be informative and interesting. Blues, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Hip Hop, and Rap by Eddie S. Meadows. Call Number: REF ML128.P63 M43 2010.

  16. Popular Music: Pop Music Research

    The following magazines can be browsed in the current periodicals section on the first floor of the Music Library. You may also use the link above to find online issues. Billboard. Downbeat. Electronic Musician. Journal of Popular Music Studies. Living Blues. Mix. Popular Music & Society. Rock Music Studies. Rolling Stone. Sing Out! Wire <<

  17. Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and ...

    Although comparative research has revealed distinct and shared neural mechanisms for music and language (9, 14-19), there has been relatively less comparative analysis of acoustic attributes of music and language (20, 21) and even fewer that directly compare the two most widespread forms of music and language that use the same production ...

  18. Frontiers

    Music is one of the most universal ways of expression and communication for humankind and is present in the everyday lives of people of all ages and from all cultures around the world (Mehr et al., 2019).Hence, it seems more appropriate to talk about musics (plural) rather than in the singular (Goble, 2015).Furthermore, research by anthropologists as well as ethnomusicologists suggests that ...

  19. Singing researchers find cross-cultural patterns in music and language

    New research shows how cultural transmission shapes the evolution of music Mar 22, 2023 Analysis of Japanese and English folk songs finds cross-cultural regularities in music evolution

  20. Popular Music Research Papers

    Popular Music and Society. 39/5: 563-578 (2016) This article explores space imagery in the music of George Clinton and David Bowie and argues that different horizons of Black and white terrestrial experience give rise to divergent astral imaginaries. Analysis of song lyrics, liner... more. Download.

  21. 120 Music Research Paper Topics

    Music Industry Research Paper Topics: The impact of streaming services on music consumption patterns. The role of social media in promoting and marketing music. The effects of piracy on the music industry. The influence of technology on music production and distribution. The relationship between music and mental health.

  22. (PDF) The Research on the Influence of KPOP (Korean Popular Music

    Filipinos, known for their love of music and dance, embraced K-Pop's energetic style. This study aimed to further identify, explore, and examine the phenomenon that currently affects K-Pop fans ...

  23. POPULAR MUSIC AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: An Editorial Epilogue

    Abstract. Popular music is perhaps the most international mode of communication, yet social research on this phenomenon remains strongly national in orientation. Recent research begins to point to issues at the levels of the individual and the subculture (especially youth), and to functions for social groups such as identification, integration ...

  24. Music Perception

    Music Perception: an interdisciplinary journal publishes theory driven, basic and applied science, empirical reports, theoretical papers, and reviews. The journal's scope concerns the perception and cognition of music in composing, improvising, playing, performing, recalling, recognizing, teaching, learning and responding to music through single or multiple modalities.

  25. The Top 10 Most Interesting Music Research Topics

    Your music research paper could outline some of these factors that affect music consumer behavior and highlight their mechanism of action. 2. Hip-hop Culture and Its Effect on Teenage Behavior. In 2020, hip-hop and RnB had the highest streaming numbers, according to Statista.

  26. Why Do People Make Music?

    In a new study, researchers found universal features of songs across many cultures, suggesting that music evolved in our distant ancestors. A research team that comprised musicologists ...

  27. What Is It About Music That Makes Us Feel So Good?

    Music brings out emotion. Music can also have a positive effect on our physical well-being. Music can help reduce blood pressure, can alleviate stress and anxiety, and can increase dopamine and ...

  28. Did Body Lice Spread Bubonic Plague? Research Suggests the Parasites

    The bubonic plague killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe—about one-third of the continent's population—during a pandemic known as the Black Death in the mid-1300s. But exactly how ...