There has been a growing academic interest in the study of song translation recent decade. Due to interdisciplinary nature such investigation, researching developed and stemmed from concepts notions various disciplines as literary studies, music theatre besides studies. As result, field seems be “disparate” “fragmented” (p. 23). This edited volume essays nearly 500 pages is seminal collection t...

At the end of the day, ain't nobody else gonna walk in your shoes, quite the way that you do. So be at peace with yourself. " Bill Fay, lyrics from 'Be At Peace With Yourself'

This research examines the role lyric text can play in improving audio music mood classification. A new method is proposed to build a large ground truth set of 5,585 songs and 18 mood categories based on social tags so as to reflect a realistic, user-centered perspective. A relatively complete set of lyric features and representation models were investigated. The best performing lyric feature s...

Language generation tasks that seek to mimic human ability to use language creatively are difficult to evaluate, since one must consider creativity, style, and other non-trivial aspects of the generated text. The goal of this paper is to develop evaluation methods for one such task, ghostwriting of rap lyrics, and to provide an explicit, quantifiable foundation for the goals and future directio...

Music listeners have difficulty correctly understanding and remembering song lyrics. However, results from the present study support the hypothesis that young adults can learn African-American English (AAE) vocabulary from listening to hip-hop music. Non-African-American participants first gave free-response definitions to AAE vocabulary items, after which they answered demographic questions as...

This paper describes experimental research investigating the genre classification utility of combining features extracted from lyrical, audio, symbolic and cultural sources of musical information. It was found that cultural features consisting of information extracted from both web searches and mined listener tags were particularly effective, with the result that classification accuracies were ...

Comprehending lyrics, as found in songs and poems, can pose a challenge to human and machine readers alike. This motivates the need for systems that can understand the ambiguity and jargon found in such creative texts, and provide commentary to aid readers in reaching the correct interpretation. We introduce the task of automated lyric annotation (ALA). Like text simplification, a goal of ALA i...

Music is based on the real world. Composers use their day-to-day lives as inspiration to create rhythm and lyrics. Procedural music generators are capable of creating good quality pieces, and while some already use the world as inspiration, there is still much to be explored in this. We describe a system to generate lyrics and melodies from real-world data, in particular from academic papers. T...

The times they are a changin’—this wisdom was galvanized into song lyrics by Bob Dylan in 1963 when computers were still in infancy. It took more than two decades until the humble beginnings of the web in 1989. Since then (and well in accordance with Bob Dylan’s lyrics), content and use of the World Wide Web have increased and changed dramatically with now more than 550 billion documents on the...

Caribbean nationalism emerged in many ways, but music played a vital role in furnishing emotion and ideological cohesion, and fueled the excitement and sustainability of nationalist identification leading up and following independence. This study employs the musical form, ska, to exemplify how music generated a sense of nationalism in Jamaica during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and as such p...