Entrainment has been suggested as an important phenomenon underlying aspects of musical behaviour, and is attracting increasing attention in music psychology (see e.g. Large and Jones 1999, Large 2000), and in ethnomusicology (Clayton, Sager and Will 2004) as well as in other scientific fields (see e.g. Strogatz 1994, 2003). Approaches to its study in ethnomusicology must address a significant ...

In this paper we present the Latin Music Database, a novel database of Latin musical recordings which has been developed for automatic music genre classification, but can also be used in other music information retrieval tasks. The method for assigning genres to the musical recordings is based on human expert perception and therefore capture their tacit knowledge in the genre labeling process. ...

The inter-group entrainment study by Lucas, Clayton, and Leante (2011) is an interesting research report that advances studies in both empirical ethnomusicology and entrainment research in several ways, and provides an important addition to the much needed empirical case studies on musical entrainment. I submit that the authors’ analysis of an instant of resistance to entrainment is a key demon...

the human being attitudes, customs and their style of life are explained through their musical system design. so far the music is a part of the culture, therefore, to understand a culture one should also consider musical aspect of that culture. the human being attitudes, customs and their style of life are explained through their musical system design. so far the music is a part of the culture,...

Entrainment in music refers to the interaction and synchronization of two or more rhythmic processes. The first part this paper presents entrainment the?ory ethnomusicology as a methodology for interdisciplinary research into musical, social, cultural phenomena. second concerns application concept musical social example tambura practice. Because players display mutual through various behaviors ...