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Joe Bennett on CNN: Did Ed Sheeran plagiarize? [no, and here’s why]

by admin | Apr 30, 2023 | Copyright, Education, Forensic Musicology

Host Victor Blackwell interviews Professor Joe Bennett. CNN news, Sunday April 30, 2023 Introduction Blackwell: Ed sheeran played to an intimate crowd in New York on Friday: a jury in a Manhattan courtroom. They will decide whether he copied Marvin Gaye’s...
WWE – the walk-on themes

WWE – the walk-on themes

by Joe Bennett | Mar 31, 2022 | Education, media, musicology, Popular Music, Songwriting

I was recently asked by WWE to analyse and transcribe five of their top ‘walk-on’ wrestler themes, and to comment on how WWE music themes are designed to reflect to the personas and character roles of each performer. Some consistent musical characteristics...
Popular Music Education: Foreword

Popular Music Education: Foreword

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...

Optimal distinctiveness and the songwriting singer #arp

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...

Service Models in Popular Music Production Education #arp #songwriting

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...

Plagiarism: Musicology’s Proof of the Pudding #arp #iaspm

by Joe Bennett | Sep 3, 2018 | arp, Education, Networked music performance, Popular Music, Research, Songwriting

Franco Fabbri, University of Milan and Conservatorio ‘A.Boito’, Parma Our opening keynote for the conference is the much-loved Franco Fabbri, a much-celebrated musician, educator and musicologist. I was particularly interested to hear this one, because Franco is...
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