The lyrics of English-language songs have become simpler and more repetitive over the past 40 years, according to a study published in Scientific Reports.
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2024
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The pre-existing network of labels, record stores, venues and organizers related to the declining punk scene gave dance music a solid base from which to break through in the United Kingdom, and later in the Netherlands. In ...
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2023
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Liking certain things or styles is an important aspect of peoples' identities and social lives. Tastes can influence the ways humans act and judge. How to best describe musical taste reliably is—due to the ever-changing ...
Social Sciences
Jun 7, 2023
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Reggaeton has traditionally been considered as a sexist music genre and the lyrics and choreographies usually associated with it are seen as a way of promoting the objectification of women. This trend is losing popularity ...
Social Sciences
May 15, 2019
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It's hard to pinpoint the exact time in history when genre labels were used to classify music, but the fact is that over the past century, and certainly still today, genre labels dominate. Whether organising your iTunes library, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 8, 2016
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As yet another music streaming service comes online to rival the countless available outlets for so many different genres, a new approach to classifying music to make archiving, sorting and music discovery easier is published ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 29, 2015
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Love the opera? Hungry for hip hop? It turns out that your musical likes and dislikes may say more about you than you think, according to UBC research.
Social Sciences
Jun 3, 2015
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For well over two decades, researchers have sought to build music listening software that can address the deluge of music growing faster than our Spotify-spoilt appetites. From software that can tell you about the music you ...
Other
Feb 26, 2015
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Listening to jazz music while putting can boost your performance on the putting green, according to new university research.
Social Sciences
Nov 14, 2014
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Noise music is a difficult phenomenon to describe. It falls outside conventional ideas about music. It has no rules about structure, and no definitive provenance. It has little or no monetary value, and it hasn't been assigned ...
Social Sciences
Jun 5, 2013
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