How do we detect the meaning of music? We may gain some insights by looking at an unlikely source -- sign language -- a newly released linguistic analysis concludes. How do we detect the meaning of ...

SOME time ago — it is full fifteen years since — I broached a theory in regard to music which none of my fellow-devotees of the art — none at least that I heard of—received with favor. It was that ...

Can music be propaganda? Torture? How about a tool of manipulation, disorientation, and oppression? “Shift: Music, Meaning, Context” contemplates how music changes in form and interpretation as it ...

The International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music features original scholarly articles on music aesthetics, the sociology of music, the social history of music, and the history of ...

Music holds meaning. Sometimes this meaning is personal—we listen to songs that remind us of a memorable time, or we select that one song on the playlist because it gets us into a certain mood or ...

Charlie Peacock wonders how democratizing music creation—dropping the barrier to entry so low that anyone can write a song—affects the individual’s soul and our culture. Uh oh. AI is giving music ...

Music holds meaning. Sometimes this meaning is personal—we listen to songs that remind us of a memorable time, or we select that one song on the playlist because it gets us into a certain mood or ...