Essays about: "Lyrics"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 95 essays containing the word Lyrics.

  1. 26. Tokyo Night Fever : A study of English code-switching in Japanese 1970s & 1980s city pop

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Kevin Östlie; [2020]
    Keywords : code-switching; code-mixing; city-pop; Japanese; language study; music; disco; soft rock; funk; 1970s; 1980s; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to add further knowledge regarding the mixing of languages (code-switching) in Japanese popular music from the 1970s and 1980s. The genre of focus is the newly resurfaced musical style city-pop. Analysis of functional elements as well as a quantitative examination of three established code-switching types was made. READ MORE

  3. 27. Concurrent generation of melody and lyrics by recurrent neural networks

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Pietro Bolcato; [2020]
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    Abstract : This work proposes a conditioned recurrent neural network architecture forconcurrent melody and lyrics generation. This is in contrast to methods thatfirst generate music and then lyrics, or vice versa. READ MORE

  4. 28. American Poet Emily Dickinson Set to Music by 20th Century Composers

    University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för klassisk musik

    Author : Hitomi Ohki; [2020]
    Keywords : Emily Dickinson; Aaron Copland; art song;

    Abstract : When singers perform art songs, how many of them, especially students, learn about the poem and poet behind the lyrics? It might be that a number of singers focus on composers, however not poets. Even in concert programs, it is common to only write the composer’s name. READ MORE

  5. 29. You know who pop the most shit? : A study of profanity and gender differences in modern pop music

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Johanna Sandén; [2020]
    Keywords : Profanity; swear words; gender; frequency; profanity profiles; music lyrics;

    Abstract : Are there any gender differences in how profanity is used in modern pop music in 2019? The purpose of this study was to analyse music lyrics with particular attention paid to frequency and profanity profiles between female and male artists. The corpus used in the investigation contains a total of 34 music lyrics equally divided between the genders and was collected from a Billboard chart called “Hot 100 Songs”. READ MORE

  6. 30. The Aspects of “Be” in selected rap and Hip Hop lyrics: A marker of cultural identity?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Beatriz Helgotsson; [2019-12-16]
    Keywords : engelska; African American Vernacular English; grammar; Hip Hop Nation Language; cultural identity; sociolinguistics;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to investigate the use of the African American English (AAVE) verb be in lyrics written and performed by four African American rappers, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Gucci Mane and Future. This paper also demonstrates how the verb be in AAVE is used by these rappers to construct cultural identity. READ MORE