Pop-Refinement

A Comparative S‌tudy on Pop, Elite and Folk Art

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

A Research on the Fragmented Culture of Iran’s Youth in the Content of Pop Music Lyrics

This research was done in order to describe the content of proposed lyrics’ concepts in permissible pop music based on published audio works’ list of music publication office in 2009 among 200 albums of music office published audio works,  the 10 number of pop singers were randomly selected and the lyrics’ concept of 70 music were also investigated. In the process of data analysis in the first ...

Risk factors of pelvic organ prolapse in Iranian women: a cross-sectional study

Background and aims: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a common condition which affects on a large proportion of women. The objective of this study was to determine the risk factors of POP in Iranian women. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out to examine the role of demographic, anthropometric and clinical characteristics in POP disease in a sample of 365 females in Ilam, Iran. Exa...

SMART: Semi-Supervised Music Emotion Recognition with Social Tagging

Music emotion recognition (MER) aims to recognize the affective content of a piece of music, which is important for applications such as automatic soundtrack generation and music recommendation. MER is commonly formulated as a supervised learning problem. In practice, except for Pop music, there is little labeled data in most genres. In addition, emotion is genre specific in music and thus the ...

Oral Criticism/ Review of the book Form the Whisper of Tradition to the Charm of the Pop: An Investigation in Contemporary Iranian Music by Alireza Miralinaghi and Arvin SedaghatKish