Understanding the evolution of mainstream music is of high interest for the music production industry. In this context, we argue that a MIR perspective may be used to highlight, in particular, relations between dynamics and various properties of mainstream music. We illustrate this claim with two results obtained from a diachronic analysis performed on 7200 tracks released between 1967 and 2014...

Studies reveal a strong relationship between personality and preferred musical genre. Our study explored this relationship using a new methodology: genre dispersion among people’s mobile-phone music collections. By analyzing the download behaviours of genre-defined user subgroups, we investigated the following questions: (1) do genre-preferring subgroups show distinct patterns of genre consumpt...

The presented paper deals with the general textual analysis of television genre. mentioned topic is quite relevant, to extent that conversations occupy a large place in modern media discourse. It has great influence on creation and formation public opinion. In genre studies, types texts are classified according their common codes conventions, for example sitcom, science fiction, western, horror...