isaacullah
2999 posts
May 07, 2015
9:45 AM
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Fascinating new research article from music scientists at Queen Mary University: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/5/150081. The article should be accessible by all (I believe it's puplished as open access), but let me know if you can't get to it, and I'll see if I can host a PDF copy on my dropbox for you (I have journal access through the university library). Basically, they used automated pattern searching technique (aka "data mining") to analyze the harmonic, melodic, and chord structure of all the songs from the Billboard top 100 for the past 50 years to analyze patterns within the music. They looked for similarities and diversity, and characterized how popular music changed over that time period. To me, one of their more interesting findings is the so-called "British Invasion" of the 60's wasn't the fundamentally genre-shifting event it's been made out to be. Essentially that music was following trends that were already in motion. The most major shake up they discovered was the introduction of Hip-Hop to the charts in 1991. This work is sooo cool to me, because it mixes two of my greatest passions: Science and Music! Cool stuff!
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