by Joe Bennett | May 18, 2019 | Eurovision
[update – the day after] I correctly predicted the winner (Netherlands), but my second and third place predictions (Sweden and Australia) were a little further down the list: Sweden was 6th, Australia 9th. Not bad. Here’s an interactive infographic of the... 
by Joe Bennett | Apr 19, 2019 | Articles, music production, Popular Music, Songwriting, tidal
As a music theory geek, I love to get inside songs and figure out why we like them. There’s something beautiful about the ability of a mainstream hit to bring people together. And when the songwriter and singer is as extraordinary a talent as Ariana Grande, we can be... 
by Joe Bennett | Apr 3, 2019 | Association of Popular Music Education, berklee, Education, music education, Popular Music, Research
This post is taken from my foreword to The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices (Bloomsbury, 2019). Editors: Zack Moir, Bryan Powell, Gareth Dylan Smith. Used by permission. Popular Music Education. These three words, even though... by Joe Bennett | Jan 15, 2019 | berklee, music production
Sometimes music just speaks for itself. Listen with headphones. For best results, use a 360 headset or phone with Google Cardboard (ambisonic mix will change as you turn your head toward band... by Joe Bennett | Jan 8, 2019 | music education, Research
In October 2018, Berklee announced the launch of a new initiative, led by the remarkable Terri Lyne Carrington. The Institute was founded on a musical question, which is: What would jazz sound like in a culture without patriarchy? This morning I was viewing the video... by Joe Bennett | Sep 4, 2018 | arp, Education, music production, Research, Songwriting
Davey will be discussing songwriter identity in the context of optimal distinctiveness theory, and uses this to frame some popular music within the known teen phenomenon of ‘I loved [that band] before they were famous’. He uses the famous example of iMacs... by Joe Bennett | Sep 4, 2018 | arp, IASPM, music production, Popular Music, Research
I always love to hear Anne speak. Alas, I live-blogged her entire hour-long keynote today, complete with examples, and due to a horrible WordPress browser fail (including no success with autosave reversions) I lost all the text and examples! So to recreate it from... by Joe Bennett | Sep 4, 2018 | arp, music production, Popular Music, Research
The (Dis) Embodied Voice: hearing meaning in vocal timbre Simon Zagorski-Thomas (London College of Music, UWL) Keywords: Vocal timbre, ecological perception, embodied cognition, sonic cartoons ABSTRACT: It can be argued that since the persona of the performer... 
by Joe Bennett | Sep 4, 2018 | arp, Popular Music, Research, Songwriting
Sample replays and their implications for producers and listeners Justin Morey, Leeds Beckett University ABSTRACT: There is evidence that the cost of clearing the recording copyright of a sample (the master clearance) has risen significantly in the last 20 years (see,... by Joe Bennett | Sep 3, 2018 | arp, Education, music education, music production, Popular Music, Songwriting
Collective Creativity: A ‘Service’ Model of Contemporary Commercial Pop Music Paul Thompson, Leeds Beckett University, UK Phil Harding, Leeds Beckett University, UK Keywords: Creativity, Pop Production, Songwriting ABSTRACT: A commercial pop music production is rarely... 
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