For this assessment task students are required to prepare an analytical written report.
Select at least five (5) online or off-line articles, by five different authors and three (3) other sources (interviews, audio tracks, pictures, films, video clips etc.), that are related to your specialised area of interest (as defined by the Creative Project 2 topic).
The material should be selected carefully. Primarily seminal documents of influential authors should be considered. They must be appropriate, authoritative and relevant demonstrating differing perspectives (or opinions) on the specific topic.
ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION:
CONTEMPORARY POPULAR MUSIC :
Music Makers: Popular Culture in Music Education – Popular Music in the Classroom: Where to Begin? – Sarah Morrison [Accessed: 07.12.11]
The Great Pop Boom – Herrera & Trust [Accessed: 07.12.11]
“Popular Music and Society” and the Evolving Discipline of Popular Music Studies – Gary Burns [Accessed: 10.12.11]
“Now We’re on the Top, Top of the Pops”: The Performance of “Non-Mainstream” Music on “Billboard’s” Albums Charts, 1981-2001 – Jim Sernoe [Accessed: 10.12.11]
Radio Friendly: Part 2 – Kevin Sinclair [Accessed: 11.12.11]
DEFINING THE MELODIC “HOOK”:
The Persistence of Musical Memories: A Descriptive Study of Earworms – Bartlett & Hapbern [Accessed: 29.11.11]
Centaur Reading – Earworms (“stuck song syndrome”): Towards a Natural History of Intrusive Thoughts – Beaman and Williams [Accessed: 30.11.11]
The Selling Power of Song: Catalog Evergreens Pop Up as Jingles in Increasing Numbers – Lichtman [Accessed: 30.11.11]
A Typology of ‘Hooks’ in Popular Records [Accessed: 07.12.11]
THE “HOOK” FORMULA:
Two-and-a-Half Centuries in the Life of a Hook – Mercer Taylor [Accessed: 26.11.11]
Effect of Music Training and Musical Complexity on Focus of Attention to Melody or Harmony – Williams [Accessed: 25.11.11]
Music Makers: åSong Structure – Farish [Accessed: 25.11.11]
Factors of Musical Perception – Three Points of View – Cuddy, Keane & Zuk [Accessed: 11.12.11]
Melodic Contour Similarity Using Folk Melodies – Mark Schmuckler [Accessed: 12.12.11]
MISCELLANEOUS:
The Basics – Pentatonic Scales [Accessed: 25.11.11]
Reviews: “This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music Project,” Edited by Eric Weisbard [Accessed: 25.11.11]
The Effect of Pattern Recognition and Tonal Predictability on Sight-Singing Ability [Accessed: 25.11.11]
Soloing: The Importance of Melody [Accessed: 25.11.11]
Keyboards: Getting Outside the Tonality While Staying Inside the Melody–Part 1 [Accessed: 25.11.11]
Sign on the Dotted Void: Peppy Songs with Hooks and Beats – the New Underground Craze! [Accessed: 06.12.11]
JYU Academia.edu – Melodic and Contextual Similarity of Folk Song Phrases [Accessed: 30.11.11]
WEB LINKS
Philipp Tagg’s Online Texts [Accessed: 06:11:11]
Share Ranks.com – Best Song Hooks [Accessed: 25.11.11]
RollingStone.com – 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [Accessed: 25.11.11]
The Telegraph.co.uk – 100 Greatest Songs of All Time [Accessed: 25.11.11]
Songwriter’s Resource Guide [Accessed: 01.12.11
WEB VIDEOS
World Science Festival.com – Bobby McFerrin Hacks Your Brain With Music [Accessed: 24.11.11]
World Science Festival.com – Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus [Accessed: 25.11.11]
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