Pop-Rock Music

Suitable reverberation times for halls for rock and pop music.

The existing body of literature regarding the acoustic design of concert halls has focused almost exclusively on classical music, although there are many more performances of popular music, including rock and pop. Objective measurements were made of the acoustics of 20 rock music venues in Denmark and a questionnaire was used in a subjective assessment of those venues with professional rock mus...

Elastic Net subspace clustering applied to pop/rock music structure analysis

A novel homogeneity-based method for music structure analysis is proposed. The heart of the method is a similarity measure, derived from first principles, that is based on the matrix elastic net (EN) regularization and deals efficiently with highly correlated audio feature vectors. In particular, beatsynchronous mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, chroma features, and auditory temporal modulat...

Is there addiction to loud music? Findings in a group of non-professional pop/rock musicians

Listening to loud music may be connected to addictive behavior possibly leading to damaging effects on the cochlea. We hypothesized that members of non-professional pop/rock bands with regular exposure to loud music are more likely to show an addictive-like behavior for loud music than matched control subjects. Fifty non-professional musicians and 50 matched control subjects were asked to compl...

Subcultures, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and "nazi Rock" in England and Germany

Rock versus Classical Music

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