30 second-snippets from 37 songs have been automatically extracted. All phonemes from this pieces have been manually labeled. The considered genre was popular music. 21 songs have been performed by male singers. 16 songs have been performed by female singers. Altogether 2244 phonemes have been manually labeled and can be used by the system. Only 15 voiced phonemes have been distinguished, becau...

Automatic lyrics synchronization for karaoke applications is a major challenge in the field of music information retrieval. An important pre-requisite in order to precisely synchronize the music and corresponding text is the detection of single phonemes in the vocal part of polyphonic music. This paper describes a system, which detects the phonemes based on a state-of-the-art audio information ...

Recent work in the sociology of music suggests a declining importance of genre categories. Yet other work in this research stream and in the sociology of classification argues for the continued prevalence of genres as a meaningful tool through which creators, critics and consumers focus their attention in the topology of available works. Building from work in the study of categories and categor...

Human composers have used formal rules for centuries to compose music, and an algorithmic composer – composing without the aid of human intervention – can be seen as an extension of this technique. An algorithmic composer of popular music (a computer program) has been created with the aim to get a better understanding of how the composition process can be formalized and at the same time to get ...

Building on Philip Tagg’s timely intervention (2011), I investigate four things in relation to three dominant Anglophone popular music studies journals (Popular Music and Society, Popular Music, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies): 1) what interdisciplinarity or multidisciplinarity means within popular music studies, with a particular focus on the sites of research and the place of ethnog...

Although formal educational institutions in the UK, and particularly in Higher Education (HE), have begun to include aspects of dance music and Hip-hop styles of music in their curricula, there is still a notable lack of research into the relationship between popular electronic music-making practices, such as performance, and formal education. This study explores some of the experiences, percep...