This chapter argues that contrary to conventional wisdom and the views of many scholars and critics, rock and roll’s most important rhythmic elements are derived from a complex blend of African, American, and European musical traditions. There is therefore no objective support for racialized characterizations of the “beat” that often serve, however unintentionally, to perpetuate stereotypes in ...

Rencon is an annual international event that started in 2002. It has roles of (1) pursuing evaluation methods for systems whose output includes subjective issues, and (2) providing a forum for researches of several fields related to musical expression. In the past, Rencon was held as a workshop associated with a musical contest that provided a forum for presenting and discussing the latest rese...


 The article, “Look, here is a Polish film production.” Pre-war musical comedy as musical, an attempt to prove that comedies from the 1930s can be recognized local version of classic musical. Based on analysis two representative films this period, Piętro wyżej (L. Trystan, 1937) and Zapomniana melodia (J. Fethke, K. Tom, 1938), author proves these productions are in line with definition d...

Automatic Accents Identification is very important for discussion especially within scope of speaker recognition. Some contribution of appropriate techniques uses in Music Recognition and Accent Identification may contributes in improving the recognition rate. Techniques in discussing on music genre identification or accents automatic identification and the combination of both processes still i...

Collaborative filters are frequently used in e-commerce to provide a heightened user experience and to tempt users into making purchases by recommending items and drawing the user’s attention to additional products. Purchasing of digital media over the Internet continues to be popular and e-commerce giants such as Amazon.com, CDNOW.com and Launch.com heavily employ Automated Collaborative Filte...

An approach is presented which provides the tune change locations within a set of Irish Traditional tunes. Also provided are semantic labels for each part of each tune within the set. A set in Irish Traditional music is a number of individual tunes played segue. Each of the tunes in the set are made up of structural segments called parts. Musical variation is a prominent characteristic of this ...

This paper presents recent results using statistics generated by a MMl-supervised vector quantizer as a measure of audio similarity. Such a measure has proved successful for talker identification, and the extension from speech to general audio, such as music, is straightforward. A classifier that distinguishes speech from music and non-vocal sounds is presented, as well as experimental results ...

Capitalizing from neuroscience knowledge on how individuals are affected by the sound environment, we propose to adopt a cybernetic and ecological point of view on the musical aesthetic experience, which includes subprocesses, such as feature extraction and integration, early affective reactions and motor actions, style mastering and conceptualization, emotion and proprioception, evaluation and...