Study Objectives. Studies have found that depictions of unhealthy behaviors (e.g., illicit substance use, violence) are common in popular music lyrics; however, we are unaware of any studies that have specifically analyzed the content of music lyrics for unhealthy sleep-related behaviors. We sought to determine whether behaviors known to perpetuate insomnia symptoms are commonly depicted in the...

s 131 The Cimmerian and the Elysian: How Musical and Extra-Musical Models and Expressive Ethos Affect the Compositional Process Adam Brantley Hill, PhD (Composition), University of Tasmania, 2004 This exegesis is a document of my rediscovery of emotion and expression in my music. It is also a chronicle of my acknowledgement and incorporation into my methodology of my many influences. Moreover, ...

According to a programmatic article by Philip Tagg on theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of popular music studies (Tagg (1982)), folk or traditional music is one of the three possible kinds of music, together with classical (or art music) and popular music. This typology constitutes what Tagg calls an axiomatic triangle of musical genres, each of which being characterized by crit...

Adolescents seem to absorb popular music with the ease of children acquiring language. The linguistic ability has long been associated with a pre-adolescent sensitive period of plasticity for language acquisition. Here we raise the possibility of a sensitive period for music acquisition, focusing in particular on adolescence. Most of our empirical research entails two successive tasks: first, a...

The powerful emotional effects of music increasingly attract the attention of music information retrieval researchers and music psychologists. In the past decades, a gap exists between these two disciplines, and researchers have focused on different aspects of emotion in music. Music information retrieval researchers are concerned with computational tasks such as the classification of music by ...

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Thousands of music tracks are uploaded to the Internet every day through websites and social networks that focus on music. While some content has been popular for decades, some tracks that have just been released have been ignored. What makes a music track popular? Can the duration of a music track’s popularity be explained and predicted? By analysing data on the performance of a music track on...

An important application for use with multimedia databases is a browsing aid, which allows a user to quickly and efficiently preview selections from either a database or from the results of a database query. Methods for facilitating browsing, though, are necessarily media dependent. We present one such method that produces short, representative samples (or “audio thumbnails”) of selections of p...

In the international spread of popular culture from Korea since the late 1990s, known popularly as the “Korean Wave,” television dramas have won the hearts of fans and paved the way for rising interest in Korean popular music throughout Pacic Asia and in Asian communities around the world. Indeed, Korean popular music has been spreading rapidly; but, as argued in this article, the reasons have...