This thread was the extra push I needed to blog about this research.

http://oldmixtapes.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-science-of-making-boring-pop-music.html

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
First mistake, a
comic isn't based on words only, second mistake, for all popular arts,
comics, music etc., there's more than just the mainstream.
I wonder if they have their own semantics for "pop music".

I talk about this at length--the meanings of "popular music" and "pop music" and their relation to "popular."  Like a lot of scholarly research, this study tells us something very specific, not something sweeping about music in general.

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