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Alliteration in the Middle English Lyrics
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Time and timelessness in Robert Frost's lyrics
Sharon Cameron argues persuasively that lyrics isolate moments, freeing them from the sequential, causal flow of ordinary time. Robert Frost's lyrics, however, demonstrate that often the speakers who describe such timeless moments are themselves anchored in particular moments and cannot escape …
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Lyrics generation constrained by tone, melody and imagery
In recent years, lyrics generation has caught the eye of industry because of the commercial potential of producing trendy content quickly at low cost. At the same time, lyrics generation poses intellectual challenges as well. This thesis presents a computational method for the automatic generation …
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Using Song Lyrics In Teaching An Undergraduate Statistics Course
… in an introductory statistics course when song lyrics were used as an instructional technique. Gardner’s (2011) theory of Multiple Intelligence served as the theoretical framework of this study and provided implications for higher education. Seven traditional undergraduate students participated …
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Allusions of grandeur : figurative language use in rap lyrics
… examines allusions among a corpus of rap lyrics to find their uses and functions. The functions of the allusions, as defined by Leppihalme, 1997, of interest are the puzzle (to identify someone with similar social knowledge), humor, to indicate cultural breadth, and characterization …
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Improving music mood classification using lyrics, audio and social tags
… on lyric text analysis and the combination of lyrics and audio. Using linguistic resources and human expertise, 36 mood categories were identified from the most popular social tags collected from last.fm, a major Western music tagging site. A ground truth dataset of 5,296 songs in 18 mood …
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Rap music as protest: A rhetorical analysis of Public Enemy's lyrics
… and American oral traditions, and analyzes the lyrics of Public Enemy, one of the most powerful protest rap artists. Although Public Enemy's music does not function in a social movement as previous protest songs, a comparison of Public Enemy's lyrics to conclusions drawn by previous researchers …
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Audience Members' Recall of Lyrics in a Live Choral Performance Context
… audience members' (N=402) ability to recall lyrics in a choral composition immediately after the piece was performed live in a concert setting. Participants wrote down as many words contained in the lyrics as they could recall, and then briefly described in their own words the overall meaning …
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Computational lyricology: Quantitative approaches to understanding song lyrics and their interpretations
… on audio-related facets of music, while song lyrics have been rarely considered. Based on the observation that most popular songs contain lyrics, whose different levels of complexity contribute to the overall music complexity, this dissertation research investigates song lyric complexity and …
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Silence for the one about to sing: selected short lyrics from two collections
Silence for the One about to Sing contains a chapbook of 30 poems (selected from two collections) and a prologue. In the prologue, I discuss my influences and inspirations, and explain the creative and critical devices I use throughout my art. Inspired by the Portuguese music genre of fado and its …
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Music and interpersonal communication: An in-depth view of Ani DiFranco and her lyrics
… singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco's music lyrics provide her listeners with a foundation for relationship formation based on empathy and self disclosure. This study divides DiFranco's song lyrics into three categories of folk music, more specifically, message, protest, and propaganda songs …
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Penned in the first person : setting and theme in the lyrics of Thomas Hardy
This thesis arises from the conviction that the Hardyan quality of mind, a mind at once tentative and courageous, is of supreme importance in our time and is most distinctly and decisively present in Hardy's short poems. The chief aim of this thesis has been to offer students of Hardy thematic and …
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Influence of Exposure to Sexually-Violent Rap Lyrics on Acceptance of Violence towards Women
… influence of exposure to misogynistic rap music lyrics on men's acceptance of violence towards women.
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Rapping gender and violence? Addressing violence and gender with a content analysis of rap lyrics
The purpose of this study is to examine violence in contemporary rap music and to address if the violence is gender specific. Utilizing the Billboard Top Ten Rap Singles from 1997-2007 this study analyzed 100 songs using content analysis. Findings indicate that male violence against other males is …
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"Purple People": "Sexed" Linguistics, Pleasure, and the "Feminine" Body in the Lyrics of Tori Amos
… perception of “femininity.”</p> <p>Amos’ lyrics illustrate these theories working together; Amos’ lyrics represent such a “feminine” style as indexed through use of salient variables; thus, Amos’ lyrics represent a sociolinguistic phenomenon wherein gender-based salient variables reform …
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An analysis of the lyrics of the top 10 African language pop songs on Umhlobo Wenene in 2016
In this dissertation I critically analyse the lyrics of the top 10 songs (sung in an indigenous African language) aired on uMhlobo weNene (the national broadcast station for the Xhosa language) during 2016. Before the analysis of the songs I discuss various academic works on pop lyrics generally – …
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The differentiated effects of lyrical and non-lyrical music on reading comprehension
… (i.e. classical and rock) and the presence of lyrics. Research on task performance in the presence of background sound is mixed, in part due to the large number of possible applications. An overview of existing research on this topic is presented, including articles on the relationship between …
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