A historical overview of college football’s participants exemplifies the diversification of mainstream American culture from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. The same cannot be said for the sport’s audience, which remains largely white American. Gerald Gems maintains that football culture reinforces the construction of American…[Read more]

A historical overview of college football’s participants exemplifies the diversification of mainstream American culture from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. The same cannot be said for the sport’s audience, which remains largely white American. Gerald Gems maintains that football culture reinforces the construction of American…[Read more]

This chapter presents an approach to musical listening and analysis that privileges the individual perspectives of performers in a rock ensemble. Using passages from Yes’s “And You And I,” this study examines how each musician hears the texture in different ways while each of these “positions” differs from the Ideal Listening Position, which is…[Read more]

This chapter considers the role of popular music in the undergraduate music theory curriculum, proposing three models for integrating pop into theory teaching.

This paper surveys the career of Jimmy Miller and explores his role as producer for the Rolling Stones, with particular emphasis on Beggars Banquet.

Buena Risa Social Club es un performance humorístico-musical del cantautor cubano-mexicano Alejandro García Villalón “Virulo”, quién lo presentó en el Café Antropía (León de Los Aldama, Guanajuato, México) el 30 de noviembre de 2018. Al tener en cuenta los pocos estudios realizados sobre sus composiciones performativas, para la presente com…[Read more]

“El humor en estos tiempos da cólera” (ca. 1986) es uno de los performances que escribió, musicalizó y dirigió el cantautor Alejandro García Villalón Virulo para el Conjunto Nacional de Espectáculos de Cuba. De éste se conserva una adaptación televisiva del Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión, que no ha sido abordada en investigacion…[Read more]

En la actualidad se manifiesta una pluralidad discursiva en la música cubana, donde la diversificación de sus soportes de difusión juega un papel fundamental para que determinados músicos sean tenidos como populares. Bajo esa tesitura, los Premios Lucas brindan una variedad de fuentes primarias incomparables, poco abordadas como objetos de est…[Read more]

Con el presente trabajo se busca allanar la zanja que existe entre los abordajes tradicionales del discurso musical y los estudios de performance. Para la realización de investigaciones artísticas sobre performances musicales se debe tener en cuenta dicha expresión como subjetividad cambiante a lo largo de su devenir histórico, construido en las…[Read more]

La pluralidad discursiva manifiesta en la música cubana se ha encontrado enmarcada en una realidad estético-musical cambiante, causada por una postmodernidad social cada vez más abierta a la globalización de las expresiones culturales de los pueblos. Es dentro de esta dinámica creativa que se encontraron inmersos los performances musicales del…[Read more]

Essay analyzing Syrian wedding singer Omar Souleyman’s popularity in rave, techno, and other popular Western music markets.

MEI-encoded scores are versatile music information resources representing musical meaning within a finely addressable XML structure. The Verovio MEI engraver reflects the hierarchy and identifiers of these encodings into its generated SVG output, supporting presentation of digital scores as richly interactive Web applications. Typical MEI…[Read more]

In this paper, we apply machine translation techniques to solve one of the central problems in the field of optical music recognition: extracting the semantics of a sequence of music characters. So far, this problem has been approached through heuristics and grammars, which are not generalizable solutions. We borrowed the seq2seq model and the…[Read more]

While the increase in digital editions, online corpora, and browsable databases of encoded music presents an extraordinary resource for contemporary music scholarship, using these databases for computational research remains a complex endeavor. Although norms and standards have begun to emerge, and interoperability among different formats is often…[Read more]

Despite the interdisciplinary nature of the Italian madrigal—a genre in which poetry and music often stand on equal footing—critical editions of this repertoire tend to focus primarily on the musical text, devoting limited attention to the often-complex philological tradition of the poems set to music. Likewise, most critical editions are dev…[Read more]