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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"song lyrics"”.
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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 …
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Computational lyricology: Quantitative approaches to understanding song lyrics and their interpretations
… focused 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 …
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A mood-based music classification and exploration system
… used in combination with the affective value of song lyrics to map a song onto a psychologically based emotion space. The motivation behind this system is the lack of intuitive and contextually aware playlist generation tools available to music listeners. The need for such tools is made obvious …
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The far away home
… of outside references such as fairy tales and song lyrics. While each piece can stand on its own, these stories with complimentary themes and styles can be understood as a whole.
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An Investigation of the Relationship between Popular Music and Analytic Cubist Paintings in Prewar Paris
… it focuses on popular music, performance, song lyrics, music iconography and its connected poster advertising as each relates to the Analytic Cubist paintings of Braque and Picasso. During the last years of the nineteenth century, the world of fine art came into close contact with the realm …
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‘Synge we now alle and sum’: three Fifteenth-Century collections of communal song: a study of British Library, Sloane MS 2593; Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1; and St John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.54
… Cambridge, MS S.54 are compact collections of song lyrics written during the fifteenth century, largely without notation. My thesis seeks to develop responsive ways of reading these anthologies and uses the manuscripts to illumine the creative processes that produced and circulated their songs. …
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Music and interpersonal communication: An in-depth view of Ani DiFranco and her lyrics
… by examining how independent 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, …
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Je vis, donc je vois, donc je dis: Banlieue Violence in French Rap
… la Banlieue, and contains analyses of French rap lyrics to determine the rappers' perception of Banlieue violence. Using the song lyrics, this work examines the conditions and causes of that violence as seen by the Banlieusard, and answers the critics' accusations that French rap is a call to …
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Confident Learning for Machines and Humans
… (e.g., improving rhyme-density while writing song lyrics, enhancing empathy via emotion detection, and personalizing learning in online courses). Unfortunately, humans operate in an uncertain world – where the performance of even the most sophisticated model-centric artificially intelligent …
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This all works well up to a point
… consists of lyric poems, prose blocks, lists, song lyrics, and dialogue presented in a non-chronological sequence.
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Becoming Through Conversation--I, You, We, Me, & Us: Conceptualizing Silence, Voice, Listening, and Love With Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy Who Do Not Speak
… approach, plugging in theory, literature, song lyrics, and my personal experiences as an insider, as the mother of an adolescent with Cerebral Palsy who does not speak. I conducted conversations with youth collaborators and interviewed their mothers about perceptions, theirs and others, of …
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Using graphone models in automatic speech recognition
… recognizer is built and tested for searching song lyrics by voice, as well as transcribing spoken lectures in a open vocabulary scenario. These experiments demonstrate significant improvement over traditional word-only speech recognizers. Modifications to the flat hybrid model such as reducing …
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PoEM : a parser of emotion metaphors
… empirical analysis of metaphor distribution in song lyrics was performed, and typical communicative intentions and surface patterns were identified for the top five most frequently occurring metaphor groups. These intentions and surface patterns have been implemented as a set of metaphor …
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Orifice of Return
… employ stylistic devices like (direct address, song lyrics, colloquial speech and slang, etc.) These poems interrogate histories and imagine speculative futures for Black folks. They exist in lineage— familial, imagined, literary ancestral, and with the theoretical underpinnings of Black …
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Gritting Teeth: A Memoir of Unhealthy Love
… to be courageous at times. But this collage of song lyrics, research snippets, and even Craigslist postings works in conjunction with fragments from the writer’s two most “serious” romantic relationships, as well as fragments from her more recent romantic past, to create a piece that has given …
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Dear Black Child: A Discussion on the Formation of Identity for African Diasporic Adolescents in the U.S.
… the eyes of the youth. I also include poems and song lyrics that correlate with the pictures. I use art from artists living on the continent of Africa, and the United States. I wanted to include the African continent as well as various places in the diaspora because this will help me focus on …
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Boredom Escapes Us: A Cultural Collage in Eleven Storeys
… installations, a poem, a greeting card, a play, song lyrics and Kafka’s short story character, the hunger artist. Each storey serves to inspire a sociological meditation on the subject of boredom, all of which are grounded in the historical, social and philosophical reviews in the first four …
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The Tower: Prison architecture and the verticality of carcerality
… engages with various news media publications, song lyrics, art, and literature in order to make sense of carceral space as it exists in the cultural imagination. Of particular interest is the way that the gun tower has been presented as an anachronistic, yet comforting symbol in some cases, and …
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National identity construction and the popular ballad in nineteenth century Ireland
… the medium of popular culture specifically song lyrics throughout the nineteenth century. The English language songtexts that this work is based on provide evidence of the process of Anglicisation which, some would have it, began with the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the twelfth century, …
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Staging Intersectionality: Power and Performance in American Cultural Texts, 1855-2019
… Knowles-Carter (a contemporary singer-celebrity, songwriter, and producer), this study re-imagines the archive of Black singer-celebrities by centering Black women’s performances and voices to illuminate the diverse, nuanced representations of resistance and empowerment that Black women and …
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