Popular song and popular grammar, poetry and metalanguage

Tone-melody correspondence in Vietnamese popular song

We examine the degree of correspondence between musical and linguistic tone sequences in a corpus of 20 Vietnamese popular songs. Our data suggest that text-setting constraints in Vietnamese, as in some other Asian tone languages, are based primarily on the direction of the pitch transition from one syllable/note to the next. Borrowing some musical terminology, we may say that ‘similar motion’ ...

Popular and Clan-Popular b-Matchings

Suppose that each member of a set of agents has a preference list of a subset of houses, possibly involving ties, and each agent and house has their capacity denoting the maximum number of houses/agents (respectively) that can be matched to him/her/it. We want to find a matching M , called popular, for which there is no other matching M ′ such that more agents prefer M ′ to M than M to M ′, sub...

Cultural Hybridization in a 1930s Taiwanese Popular Song

In their article "Cultural Hybridization in a 1930s Taiwanese Popular Song" Mei-Wen Lee and Timothy P. Urban present a comparison of the three different sets of lyrics used for the melody of the 1930s Taiwanese popular song, "Moonlight Sorrow": Taiwanese lyrics used by Yu-Xian Deng and Tian-Wang Chou in their 1933 arrangement, Japanese lyrics by Kurihara Hakuya from the late 1930s, and Mandarin...

An Analysis of Chorus Features in Popular Song

This paper presents a computational study of the perceptual and musicological audio features that correlate with the structural function of sections in pop songs, specifically the chorus. Choruses have been described as more prominent, more catchy and more memorable than other sections in a song, yet chorus detection applications have always been primarily based on identifying the most-repeated...

Christianity and Popular Culture