<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div>The evolution of popular music: USA 1960-2010.<br>
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The evolution of popular music: USA 1960–2010<br>
Matthias Mauch, Robert M. MacCallum, Mark Levy, Armand M. Leroi<br>
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150081 Published 6 May 2015<br>
Royal Society Open Science Publishing<br>
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Abstract<br><br>
In modern societies, cultural change seems ceaseless. The flux of
fashion is especially obvious for popular music. While much has been
written about the origin and evolution of pop, most claims about its
history are anecdotal rather than scientific in nature. To rectify this,
we investigate the US Billboard Hot 100 between 1960 and 2010. Using
music information retrieval and text-mining tools, we analyse the
musical properties of approximately 17 000 recordings that appeared in
the charts and demonstrate quantitative trends in their harmonic and
timbral properties. We then use these properties to produce an
audio-based classification of musical styles and study the evolution of
musical diversity and disparity, testing, and rejecting, several
classical theories of cultural change. Finally, we investigate whether
pop musical evolution has been gradual or punctuated. We show that,
although pop music has evolved continuously, it did so with particular
rapidity during three stylistic ‘revolutions’ around 1964, 1983 and
1991. We conclude by discussing how our study points the way to a
quantitative science of cultural change<br><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>carlos palombini<br>professor de musicologia ufmg<br>professor colaborador ppgm-unirio<br><a href="http://goo.gl/KMV98I" target="_blank">ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2" target="_blank">www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2</a><br><a href="http://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ" target="_blank">scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ</a><br></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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