Yeah, But What Came First? The Music or the Misery?
Vox reports on a study that looks at how country music is happy in bad times, sad in good times … and pop-music is the opposite.
The researchers behind the study, Coastal Carolina University’s Terry Pettijohn and Southern Mississippi’s Donald Sacco, take as their dataset the Billboard country songs of the year from 1946 to 2008. They used text analysis software, and manual chord analysis and tempo measurement, to identify lyrical themes and musical properties of the songs. They then compared their findings to an index measuring the overall well-being of society, using indicators like unemployment, inflation, personal income growth, the suicide and homicide rates, the divorce rate, and so forth.
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