An improved ViT model for music genre classification based on mel spectrogram.

Authors: Wu, Pingping¹ (AUTHOR), Gao, Weijie² (AUTHOR), Chen, Yitao² (AUTHOR), Xu, Fangfang² (AUTHOR), Ji, Yanzhe³ (AUTHOR), Tu, Juan⁴ (AUTHOR) juantu@nju.edu.cn, Lin, Han¹ (AUTHOR) linhan@nau.edu.cn

Source: PLoS ONE. 3/13/2025, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p1-12. 12p.

Subject Terms: *POPULAR music genres, *CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks, *TRANSFORMER models, *USER experience, *SPECTROGRAMS

A Conversation with Composer Michael Dellaira.

Authors: CANFIELD, DAVID DEBOOR

Source: Fanfare: The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors. Mar/Apr2025, Vol. 48 Issue 4, p49-52. 4p.

Subject Terms: *POPULAR music genres, *COMPOSERS, *PLEASURE, *MUSICALS, *CONVERSATION

Your Brain Separates Speech and Music.

Authors: CHANG, ANDREW (AUTHOR)

Source: Scientific American. Jan2025, Vol. 332 Issue 1, p79-80. 2p. 1 Cartoon or Caricature.

Subjects: POPULAR music genres, SPEECH, SINGING, SOUNDS, MUSICALS, BIRDSONGS

I'm the Greatest Starr . . . (but no one knows it): Sounds of Blackness in Canadian Musical Theatre.

Authors: Domingue, Starr¹ (AUTHOR)

Source: Theatre Research in Canada. 2024, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p283-295. 13p.

Subject Terms: *MUSICAL theater, *POPULAR music genres, *MUSIC halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.), *MUSICAL performance, *BLACK women, *CABARET music

TRT TÜRK HALK MÜZİĞİ REPERTUVARINDA YER ALAN OYUN HAVASI FORMUNDAKİ ESERLERİN BAĞLAMA İCRASI İÇİN ETÜT OLARAK DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ.

Alternate Title: EVALUATION OF THE WORKS IN THE FORM OF PLAYING MOOD INCLUDED IN THE TRT TURKISH FOLK MUSIC REPERTOIRE AS STUDIES FOR BAGLAMA PERFORMANCE.

Authors: GÜLER, Emirhan¹ eguler@adiyaman.edu.tr

Source: Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitisü Dergisi. agu2024, Vol. 17 Issue 47, p511-534. 24p.

Subject Terms: *POPULAR music genres, *QUALITATIVE research, *DANCE music, *ENTERTAINERS, *FINGERS

The Weirdest Hit in History.

Authors: Swafford, Jan (AUTHOR)

Source: Atlantic Monthly. Dec2024, Vol. 334 Issue 5, p78-80. 3p. 1 Cartoon or Caricature.

Subjects: BRITISH kings & rulers, DEPRESSION in men, ART collecting, SLAVE trade, POPULAR music genres, OPERA

Historical Power Imbalances and the Branding of Vannam Dances as Sinhalese Cultural Heritage.

Alternate Title: Zgodovinska neravnovesja moči in označevanje plesov vannam za singalsko kulturno dediščino.

Authors: Peiris, Eshantha¹ eshantha.j.peiris@gmail.com

Source: Musicological Annual / Muzikoloski Zbornik. 2024, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p67-79. 13p.

Subject Terms: *POPULAR music genres, *CULTURAL property, *POLITICS & culture, *DECOLONIZATION, *DANCE

Geographic Terms: SRI Lanka

Bachatéame, pero con la /s/: La hipercorrección de la /s/ implosiva en la bachata.

Alternate Title: Bachata me, but with the /s/: Hypercorrection of implosive /s/ in bachata music.

Authors: Willis, Erik W.¹ (AUTHOR) ewwillis@iu.edu

Source: Spanish in Context. 2024, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p247-278. 32p.

Subject Terms: *POPULAR music genres, *COMMUNICATION styles, *MUSICIANS, *SINGERS, *DIALECTS

Musical Genres and Their Influence on Heart Rate Variability and Blood Pressure: A cross-sectional study.

Authors: Sharma, Pallavi¹, Jain, Aditya², Singh, Kd, Kumar, Avnish, Sandhu, Gagneen, Sharma, Shivani

Source: European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine; 2024, Vol. 14 Issue 5, p601-607, 7p

Music Matters: But the Sound Does Too.

Authors: DUBINS, JERRY

Source: Fanfare: The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors. Nov/Dec2024, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p4-10. 3p.

Subject Terms: *POPULAR music, *POPULAR music genres, *LISTENING

Lenin Tamayo.

Authors: Burga, Solcyré (AUTHOR)

Source: TIME Magazine. 10/28/2024, Vol. 204 Issue 13/14, p46-46. 1p. 1 Color Photograph.

Subjects: MUSICAL composition, MUSIC industry, INTERNET celebrities, POPULAR music genres, SINGING, MUSIC videos

An Automatic Classification Method for Multiple Music Genres by Integrating Emotions and Intelligent Algorithms.

Authors: Liu, Jianwen¹ (AUTHOR) 18301061193@163.com

Source: Applied Artificial Intelligence. 2023, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p1-24. 24p.

Subject Terms: *Algorithms, Popular music genres, Automatic classification, Multiple Signal Classification, Computational complexity

"I guess that's why they call it the blues": Personality and the interplay between emotion and genre.

Authors: Goyal, Yash¹ (AUTHOR) yashgoyal786@gmail.com, Hanji, Shivani¹ (AUTHOR), Carlson, Emily² (AUTHOR), Surana, Aayush¹ (AUTHOR), Kala, Divy¹ (AUTHOR), Alluri, Vinoo¹ (AUTHOR)

Source: European Journal of Personality. Mar/Apr2025, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p137-157. 21p.

Subject Terms: *PERSONALITY, *POPULAR music genres, *MUSICOLOGY, *MUSIC & emotions, *RAP music, *EXTRAVERSION

SONIC MOBILITIES: Producing Worlds in Southern China.

Authors: Schweig, Meredith¹

Source: Pacific Affairs. Mar2025, Vol. 98 Issue 1, p141-144. 4p.

Subject Terms: *POLITICAL science, *POPULAR music genres, *CULTURAL boundaries, *STATE power, *COSMOPOLITANISM, CULTURAL Revolution, China, 1966-1976

Reviews & Products: CIVIL War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery (Book), SONIC Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China (Book)

Striking a chord for gender equality: dissecting gender representation in Chinese middle school music education textbooks.

Authors: Cao, Junyi¹ (AUTHOR), Ho Weatherly, Katy Ieong Cheng² (AUTHOR) katyweatherly@um.edu.mo, Tang, Wenhui³ (AUTHOR)

Source: Music Education Research. Feb2025, p1-15. 15p. 3 Illustrations.

Subject Terms: *POPULAR music genres, *SCHOOL music, *SEX discrimination, *WOMEN musicians, *MIDDLE school education, *ELECTRONIC textbooks

The "Triumph of Imbecile Institutions Over Life": Death Cults as an Enabling Myth of Late Neoliberalism.

Authors: Gil-Vasquez, Karol, Elsner, Wolfram

Source: Journal of Economic Issues; Sep2024, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p709-731, 23p

STRAUSS/BERG/BARTÓK.

Authors: Dubins, Jerry

Source: Fanfare: The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors. Sep/Oct2024, Vol. 48 Issue 1, p120-122. 3p.

Subject Terms: *YOUNG adults, *POPULAR music genres, *ORAL interpretation, *PIANO sonatas, *TWENTIETH century

Comparative analysis of novel decision tree classifier with random forest algorithm for predicting music genre and improved accuracy.

Authors: Sai, G. Varun¹ (AUTHOR) varunsaig19@saveetha.com, Thinakaran, K.¹ (AUTHOR) thinakarank.sse@saveetha.com

Source: AIP Conference Proceedings. 2025, Vol. 3252 Issue 1, p1-6. 6p.

Subject Terms: *DECISION making, *POPULAR music genres, *FEATURE extraction, *MULTIPLE Signal Classification, *SAMPLE size (Statistics), *RANDOM forest algorithms, *DECISION trees

KeYric: Unsupervised Keywords Extraction and Expansion from Music for Coherent Lyrics Generation.

Authors: Ma, Xichu¹, ma_xichu@nus.edu.sg, Sharma, Varun¹, sharmavarun.s@u.nus.edu, Kan, Min-Yen¹, kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg, Lee, Wee Sun¹, leews@comp.nus.edu.sg, Wang, Ye¹, wangye@comp.nus.edu.sg

Source: ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications & Applications; Jan2025, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p1-28, 28p

Dual-Path Beat Tracking: Combining Temporal Convolutional Networks and Transformers in Parallel.

Authors: Thapa, Nikhil¹, nikhiltesla@gmail.com, Lee, Joonwhoan¹, chlee@jbnu.ac.kr

Source: Applied Sciences (2076-3417); Dec2024, Vol. 14 Issue 24, p11777, 17p