Is Modern Music Boring?

29 Jul 2012

Here, via Kevin Drum, is statistical evidence that modern pop music is boring or at least more homogeneous than in the past (yes, Tyler already linked to Kevin’s post but I wanted to link to the underlying dataset (see below)). We find three important trends in the evolution of musical discourse: the restriction of pitch sequences (with metrics [...]
music science

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Alex Tabarrok

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