by Joe Bennett | Aug 29, 2022 | musicology, Research, Songwriting
This article is an excerpt from my PhD thesis, posted here in relation to a documentary project for which I was recently interviewed. Stock, Aitken and Waterman were one of several case studies I undertook to compare approaches to creative collaboration in songwriting... by Joe Bennett | Jun 6, 2022 | Copyright, Forensic Musicology, Songwriting
Mariah Carey performs at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony in New York in 2014: Photo: Charles Sykes/AP via The Guardian Another week, another spurious music copyright infringement lawsuit. On Friday, Mariah Carey and co-writer Walter Afanasieff... by Joe Bennett | May 14, 2022 | Eurovision, musicology
A better result than last year with the predictions – I got a home run on the top 3, and only missed one outsider – Serbia, for which I guess I misread the lyric theme. Looks like Europe got the same joy as I did out of the sillier ones (Moldova and Norway), so... by Joe Bennett | May 13, 2022 | Eurovision, Forensic Musicology, Popular Music, Songwriting
As regular readers will know, I have been live-blogging the ESC since 2011, and in 2020 undertook a larger-scale song analysis for Netflix, where we looked at the meta-characteristics of 259 finalists 2010-2019. To get you in the zone (I’m typing this on... 
by Joe Bennett | Apr 12, 2022 | Copyright, Forensic Musicology, musicology, Plagiarism, Popular Music, Songwriting
Watch on YouTube Interview with Professor Joe Bennett (Forensic Musicologist / Berklee College Of Music) discussing the Ed Sheeran “Shape Of You” verdict in the UK high court. Interview date: April 10, 2022 BBC World Service: World Business Report... 
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