When asked to provide a contribution for an anthology or for a conference, I am usually expected to say something about popular music analysis. This occasion is no exception and I am pleased to oblige. However, over the last ten years, I have come to realise that the sort of popular music analysis I have been trying to develop for teaching purposes may in fact have more value in contributing to...

Music plays an important role in the socialization of children and adolescents. Popular music is present almost everywhere, and it is easily available through the radio, various recordings, the Internet, and new technologies, allowing adolescents to hear it in diverse settings and situations, alone or shared with friends. Parents often are unaware of the lyrics to which their children are liste...

Popular music plays a central role in the lives of millions of people. It motivates beginners, engages experienced musicians, and plays both functional (e.g. churches) and non-functional (e.g. music festivals) roles in many contexts. Forming and maintaining a popular music ensemble can be challenging, particularly for part-time musicians who face other demands on their time. Where an ensemble h...

Music plays an important role in the socialization of children and adolescents. Popular music is present almost everywhere, and it is easily available through the radio, various recordings, the Internet, and new technologies, allowing adolescents to hear it in diverse settings and situations, alone or shared with friends. Parents often are unaware of the lyrics to which their children are liste...

We introduce the task of vocalist gender recognition in popular music and evaluate the benefit of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization based enhancement of melodic components to this aim. The underlying automatic separation of drum beats is described in detail, and the obtained significant gain by its use is verified in extensive test-runs on a novel database of 1.5 days of MP3 coded popular songs...

Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of the structural regularities underlying musical discourse are yet to be discovered and, accordingly, their historical evolution remain formally unknown. In this contribution we use tools and concepts from statistical physics and complex networks to study and quantify the evolution of western conte...

Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of the structural regularities underlying musical discourse are yet to be discovered and, accordingly, their historical evolution remain formally unknown. In this contribution we use tools and concepts from statistical physics and complex networks to study and quantify the evolution of western conte...

AIMS The average US adolescent is exposed to 34 references to alcohol in popular music daily. Although brand recognition is an independent, potent risk factor for alcohol outcomes among adolescents, alcohol brand appearances in popular music have not been assessed systematically. We aimed to determine the prevalence of and contextual elements associated with alcohol brand appearances in US popu...

There has been a steady increase in popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions (HMEIs) across Europe. However, what students actually are supposed to learn bachelor/master remained largely understudied. Based on 12 in-depth interviews with leaders higher education, this paper addresses: (1) how is defined and possibly canonized, (2) the position of is, (3) content constructed...