Radio Formats and the Transformation of Musical Style: Codes and Cultural Values in the Remaking of Tunes

01 October 1997 Remaking previous hits has long been a staple in commercial pop music. It is a formula that has repeatedly proven successful for both well-known and newly-emerging artists. A tune's commercial value increases if it can appeal, in a repackaged version,...

Connecting Music to Ethics

30 November 2018 Many features of music contribute to its positive potential for promoting social harmony. But music’s influence on human interaction is not entirely benign. I consider features of music that enable it to serve such contrary projects, beginning by...

Voices of Change: How Generation Z is Reshaping the Music Industry

29 October 2025 Editor, Music Business-Industry Daniel Walzer Expand Article Introduction The music industry is a hub of constant adaptation as new trends, platforms, and forms of music consumption continually develop. Influenced by their respective audiences, the...

The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul. 2019. Branford Marsalis Quartet

01 May 2021 of the unique way they create jazz with one another, interacting intuitively to create wildly expressive music. authors: Joel Love author_ids: 271866 authors: Joel Love author_ids: 271866

A Taxonomy of Sentence Structures

07 August 2014 Abstract In his 1967 Fundamentals of Musical Composition, Arnold Schonberg described the sentence as a basic tool for organizing themes. Over the past thirty years, a growing number of scholars have been reexamining Schoenberg's concept of the sentence...

Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas

13 May 2026 In 1956, Ford Frick, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, tried to woo music fans to pay more attention to baseball. Writing in Music Journal, Frick hoped that his “comparison of music and baseball should be of interest to devotees of both of...

Black, Brown, and Beige: One Piece of Duke Ellington's Musical and Social Legacy

01 October 2011 For this article, I chose Black, Brown, and Beige, and the critics' reactions to it, as a starting point from which to discuss Ellington's efforts to change negative perceptions about African Americans and the conditions under which they lived. The...

The Evolutionary Development of the Disco Bass Line in History and Practice

01 October 1981 One of the primary characteristics of disco music is its strong bass line. Many of the bass lines used in this genre have evolved from the bass lines of rock and boogie woogie music. This study will trace a basic disco bass line as it has evolved and...

Carissimi’s [i]Jephte[/i] and Jesuit Spirituality

01 April 2019 Abstract The lament that ends Jacomo Carissimi’s Jephte is frequently anthologized and taught in undergraduate surveys, and is justly famous for its emotional impact. Although it is generally thought to have been composed for performance at the...

Lessons from a World: Balinese Applied Music Instruction and the Teaching of Western "Art" Music

01 October 1993 Lessons from a World: Balinese Applied Music Instruction and the Teaching of Western "Art" Music1 The teacher does not seem to teach, certainly not from our standpoint. He is merely the transmitter; he simply makes concrete the musical idea which is to...

Emergent Dissonance and the Resolution of a Paradox

01 October 1996 Our explanations of music over the centuries have not lacked for their perplexities, their mysteries and even contradictions. One of the most persistent anomalies of our history has managed to embody all three: the conceptual duplicity surrounding the...

On Miles and the Modes

01 October 1998 Speaking with conviction about the musical substance of times long past is not easy. Speculating about how that music may have been experienced by its contemporaries is even more difficult, and thus musicology's most astute figures have warned...