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流行音乐的演变:USA 1960-2010

The Evolution of Popular Music: USA 1960-2010

Queen Mary University of London(伦敦玛丽女王大学);Imperial College London(帝国理工学院)

Matthias Mauch, Robert M. MacCallum, Mark Levy, Armand M. Leroi

摘要:

在现代社会中,文化的变化似乎永无止境。流行音乐的流行趋势尤其明显。虽然关于流行音乐的起源和演变已经写了很多,但大多数关于其历史的说法都是轶事,而不是科学的。为了纠正这一点,我们调查了1960年至2010年之间的美国公告牌100强。使用音乐信息检索(MIR)和文本挖掘工具,我们分析了图表中出现的约17,000个录音的音乐属性,并展示了其谐波和音色属性的定量趋势。然后,我们使用这些属性产生一个基于音频的音乐风格分类,并研究音乐的多样性和差异,测试和拒绝,文化变迁的几个经典理论的演变。最后,我们调查流行音乐的演变是渐进的还是间断的。我们表明,虽然流行音乐不断发展,它这样做的三个风格的“革命”在1964年,1983年和1991年左右,特别迅速。最后,我们讨论了我们的研究如何指向一个定量科学的文化变革。

英文摘要:

In modern societies, cultural change seems ceaseless. The flux of fashion is especially obvious for popular music. While much has been written about the origin and evolution of pop, most claims about its history are anecdotal rather than scientific in nature. To rectify this we investigate the US Billboard Hot 100 between 1960 and 2010. Using Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and text-mining tools we analyse the musical properties of ~17,000 recordings that appeared in the charts and demonstrate quantitative trends in their harmonic and timbral properties. We then use these properties to produce an audio-based classification of musical styles and study the evolution of musical diversity and disparity, testing, and rejecting, several classical theories of cultural change. Finally, we investigate whether pop musical evolution has been gradual or punctuated. We show that, although pop music has evolved continuously, it did so with particular rapidity during three stylistic "revolutions" around 1964, 1983 and 1991. We conclude by discussing how our study points the way to a quantitative science of cultural change.

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