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Research: 40 years of The BRIT Awards’ Song Of The Year

by Joe Bennett | Feb 7, 2022 | musicology, Popular Music, Research, Songwriting

Earlier this year, I was commissioned to research the history of the BRIT Awards’ Song Of The Year, to celebrate 40 years from the first award (Tainted Love, Soft Cell, 1982) to the most recent (Watermelon Sugar, Harry Styles, 2021). We did a similar thing back in...
Have you been hearing Bohemian Rhapsody ‘wrong’ all these years? [answer: probably]

Have you been hearing Bohemian Rhapsody ‘wrong’ all these years? [answer: probably]

by Joe Bennett | Jul 24, 2021 | Forensic Musicology, musicology, Popular Music, Research, Songwriting

You know that feeling when a song's intro seems to trip up your ear, so that when the band comes in it sounds like the timing's out? There are a few rock classics that play with our rhythmic ears in this way. When I first heard Led Zeppelin's Rock And Roll I thought...
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...

Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice

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...

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...

Microrhythms and Microsounds in African-American Popular Music

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...
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