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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...

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