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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...
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 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...
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