From the Audiology Division of the Speech Clinic, Institute for Human Adjustment, The University of Michigan, 1111 East Catherine, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104. Constant or recurrent exposure to high intensity sound can permanently damage hearing. Pediatricians and otologists are becoming increasingly aware of this danger, especially to teenagers who listen to rock’n roll music and entertainment&mdas...

Generating realistic and aesthetic pieces is one of the most exciting tasks in the field. We present in this demo paper a new neural music generation model we recently proposed, called MuseGAN. We exploit the potential of applying generative adversarial networks (GANs) to generate multi-track pop/rock music of four bars, using convolutions in both the generators and the discriminators. Moreover...

Music has always been one of America’s most popular cultural exports to Europe and the rest of the world. While it is true that many Europeans enjoy American pop music, others also have a deep and abiding appreciation for more “roots” based genres of American music, including blues, gospel, jazz, swing, folk, bluegrass, conjunto, cajun, zydeco, or country. In fact, several American musicians ha...

This article begins from a perceived lack of empirical evidence in cultural studies, namely the ethnography of cultural globalization in ‘global cities’ other than those of the West. Youth culture among the upper strata of the South-Indian metropolis Bangalore is taken as an instance of how modernity is experienced and produced in the post-colonial Third World. The focus lies on the reception o...

Hindi film music, which is commonly referred to as “Bollywood” music, is one of the most popular forms of music in the world today. One of the reasons for its popularity has been the willingness of Bollywood composers to adopt and be influenced by various musical forms including Western pop, jazz, rock, and classical music. However, till date, we are unaware of any systematic quantitative analy...

Classical music has been shown to reduce stress in kennelled dogs; however, rapid habituation of dogs to this form of auditory enrichment has also been demonstrated. The current study investigated the physiological and behavioural response of kennelled dogs (n=38) to medium-term (5days) auditory enrichment with five different genres of music including Soft Rock, Motown, Pop, Reggae and Classica...

Most existing studies on music mood classification have been focusing on Western music while little research has investigated whether mood categories, audio features, and classification models developed from Western music are applicable to non-Western music. This paper attempts to answer this question through a comparative study on English and Chinese songs. Specifically, a set of Chinese pop s...

In this paper we study the network structure in music and attempt to compose music artificially. Networks are constructed with nodes and edges corresponding to musical notes and their co-occurrences. We analyze sample compositions from Bach, Mozart, Chopin, as well as other types of music including Chinese pop music. We observe remarkably similar properties in all networks constructed from the ...