In November 1953, the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, Germany, staged a new opera, the composer Boris Blacher's "Abstrakte Oper Nr. 1," which had debuted just months previously. As it ran, music fans were treated to both a performance ...
Social Sciences
Oct 2, 2019
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Music has been a long-standing focus of scientific inquiry. For instance, since the 1850s, the evolutionary function of music was a subject of keen debate. More recently, ground-breaking work from multiple scientific disciplines ...
Social Sciences
Sep 26, 2019
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Mason Youngblood, a psychologist at City University of New York, has found a way to study cultural conformity bias in groups of people by studying music sampling used on commercially sold songs. In his paper published in ...
Don't let the success of Beyonce and Taylor Swift fool you. Females are still grossly underrepresented in the music industry, reports a recent Northwestern University study.
Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2019
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In 2019, surely we are past the days in music class where boys are shunted to drums and trombone while girls are pushed toward flute and choir? Not necessarily so.
Social Sciences
Aug 29, 2019
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Summer is the time of music festivals—and a new study published in the scientific journal Geoforum has suggested that they offer an opportunity for people to try out more sustainable lifestyles.
Environment
Jul 25, 2019
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Children from the wealthiest backgrounds are three times more likely to take music classes out of school hours than those from the poorest families and there is a 20 percent participation gap in sport, new research shows.
Social Sciences
Jul 19, 2019
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Possessions are going out of fashion. An endless stream of media reports claim millennials – that amorphous mass of people born in the 1980s and 1990s who have grown up with the internet and digital technology—are in ...
Internet
Jul 16, 2019
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After years of depressing images of huge fields strewn with abandoned tents and rubbish in the aftermath of music festivals, it was heartening to hear Glastonbury Festival organisers claim that 99% of festival-goers' tents ...
Environment
Jul 11, 2019
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The secrets behind traditional folk music from across the globe and dating back thousands of years are likely to be revealed by using artificial intelligence, according to a leading academic expert.
Machine learning & AI
Jul 11, 2019
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