Is Complex Music Socially Significant? Doing Ethnomusicology in South Asia

Computational ethnomusicology: a music information retrieval perspective

Computational ethnomusicology (CE) refers to the use of computational techniques for the study of musics from around the world. It has been a growing field that has benefited from the the many advances that have been made in music information retrieval (MIR). The historical development of CE and the types of tasks that have been addressed so far, is traced in this paper. The use of computationa...

Detecting Drops in Electronic Dance Music: Content based approaches to a socially significant music event

Electronic dance music (EDM) is a popular genre of music. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically detect the characteristic event in an EDM recording that is referred to as a drop. Its importance is reflected in the number of users who leave comments in the general neighborhood of drop events in music on online audio distribution platforms like SoundCloud. The variability that chara...

Free rhythm: ethnomusicology and the study of music without metre

Like many other rhythmic terms, ' free rhythm' is widely enough used to be recognized as part of the vocabulary of musicology, without ever having been convincingly studied or even denned. In general, this term and its various synonyms refer to music without metrical organization. ' Free rhythm' is an important musical phenomenon which has been largely neglected by the field of ethnomusicology....

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When doing good is bad in gift giving : Mis - predicting appreciation of socially responsible gifts

Gifts that support a worthy cause (i.e., ‘‘gifts that give twice’’), such as a charitable donation in the recipient’s name, have become increasingly popular. Recipients generally enjoy the idea of these gifts, which not only benefit others in need but also make individuals feel good about themselves. But do givers accurately predict appreciation of these types of gifts? Across three studies, we...