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66 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 6,751 Music History and Culture papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Recommendations for Future Research Due to the limitations of this study, the relatively short time frame presented by the author, the chosen study design provides recommendations for future research. Ø This article presents the most comprehensive study of Azerbaijani tar players and tar playing in English, written by Kamil Ahmadov. From a similar perspective, one can also look at his other works written in the field of Azerbaijani instrument studies. Ø Comparisons can be made by analyzing instrumental players in Azerbaijan based on their inimitable playing styles.

    Journal of Music Theory and Transcultural Music Studies · 2026 · DOI

  • For the purposes of the article, the material will be limited to the covers from the 1970s (Ramblin’ Rose by Jerry Lee Lewis / MC5, Love Is Strange by Mickey & Sylvia / Trash by New York Dolls, Helter Skelter by The Beatles / Siouxsie and the Banshees), because in this period (on the basis of punk and post-punk music) similar practices were the most intense.

    Covery – manifesty. Muzyczne strategie przezwyciężania kulturowej opresji · 2023 · DOI

  • This paper conceptualizes this poorly studied phenomenon of cross-promotion connecting the music and film industries and uses a content analysis of 119 music videos produced over a period of 33 years in order to study the importance of the artist and the movie in the video, the various strategies developed in order to accomplish its double promotional mission, and the specific formal and strategic features of this audiovisual format.

    Soundtrack Music Videos: The Use of Music Videos as a Tool for Promoting Films · 2021 · DOI

  • Among our results, we highlight the relationship between offline and online instances, the role of improvisation, the characteristics of a sort of live performance that had not been investigated up until now, and the various transformations introduced by Spotify mediatizations, and their uploading process, into Black Music Jams.

    Jams de Black Music en Buenos Aires. Relaciones entre performances en vivo y sus mediatizaciones de Spotify · 2020 · DOI

  • I begin with a preliminary survey of rock and pop concerts before exploring in the main section how and why live and recorded music performed a key but underexplored role in the success of the 1992 Olympic Games.

    Barcelona, a musical olympus? Live concerts, club cultures, television and city branding · 2020 · DOI

  • What could this mean for the study of Ellison’s influences, especially those that have gone unacknowledged or have not been explored adequately? And what might it suggest about Petry as a sort of “alternative” jazz critic? First, I consider the question of whether Ellison could have read Petry’s story when it appeared.

    Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, and Two Representations of Live Jazz Perfomance · 2015 · DOI

  • Additionally, the self-reports of 102 PCGS in Australia present an “insider” view of the real world from the lived experiences of this important, yet under-researched, group of professional voice users.

    Reflections on contemporary commercial singing: an insider’s perspective · 2014 · DOI

  • Using the American recording industry as a case study, this article analyzes innovation and diversity concurrently and outlines the analytical purchase gained from doing so; examines the effects of performer incumbency and combinatorial role patterns, thereby offering an empirical application of the “role as resource” perspective (Baker and Faulkner ); and provides data on an underexplored era in which the emergence of digital technology has had wide‐ranging repercussions.

    Innovation and Diversity Redux: Analyzing Musical Form and Content in the American Recording Industry, 1990–2009 · 2014 · DOI

  • It argues that while sociological popularmusic studies may rhetorically privilege "real" experience over abstract textualism, itsmethods are often limited to the dimensions of experience that can be readily observedand verbalized, or resort to the kind of abstract theorizing its practitioners claim to reject.

    In Defense of Textual Analysis: Resisting Methodological Hegemony in Media and Cultural Studies · 2012 · DOI

  • Truly, the reason for the difference would need to be studied in greater depth to determine why they are not comparable. This was done to allow faculty to consider Using Grounded Theory in Writing Assessment 85 audience throughout all seven sections, as it can impact numerous aspects of a paper, and is not limited to a specific assessment area.

    Genre Awareness, Academic Argument, and Transferability · 2011 · DOI

  • A bit of investigation into this little known composer with the distinguished-sounding British high society name reveals a surprise - that Montague Ring was merely the pseudonym adopted by Afro-British female composer Amanda Ira Aldridge, born Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge (1866-1956).

    Amanda Aldridge, Teacher and Composer: A Life in Music · 2010

  • Another strategy has been to investigate as a social practice, If meaning is created, how is it created, by whom, and through what means? How does creation of musical meaning connect to acquisition of power? How do these activities connect further on level of class? This approach is very promising, yet it is insufficient simply to raise these questions in absence of a coherent theoretical framework.

    Critical Musicology and the Problem of Mediation · 1997 · DOI

  • Community Services Commission for Davidson County and the City of Nashville, Tennessee, A Future for Nashville (Nashville Tennessee, June 1952), p. 3. Robert E. McArthur, "The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County," in Regional Governance: Promise and Performance. (Washington, D.C.: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1973) p. 26. © PUBLIUS, The Journal of Federalism, The Center for The Study of Federalism, Fall 1974 19 l D o w n o a d e d f r o m h t t p s: / / i a c a d e m c. o u p. c o m p u b / l i l u s / a r t i c e - a b s t r a c t / / / / 4 4 1 9 1 9 0 7 5 3 8 b y g u e s t o n 2 8 O c t o b e r 2 0 1 9 20 Bruce D. Rogers and C. McCurdy Lipsey In June, 1958 voters in the City of Nashville and in Davidson County were first given the opportunity to vote on a new metropolitan charter under which the city and county governments would consolidate their governmental structures while retaining the two separate tax districts which corresponded to the City of Nashville (urban services district) and the area, outside the city, in Davidson County (general services district). The urban services district would expand only when it was best able to provide full urban services to the areas it would annex. At the time of the vote the Nashville area was composed of the City of Nashville, six incorporated communities,3 seven special districts and one county.

    Metropolitan Reform: Citizen Evaluations of Performances in Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee · 1974 · DOI

  • Discussion in the groups which had been meeting between general sessions crystalized in recommendations. Repre- sentatives of state departments of educa- tion proposed that each state designate a person who should be charged with the responsibility of promoting and develop- ing a program of guidance; that teacher training institutions be urged to offer courses in guidance for teachers through both residence and extension work; that as far as possible each state should hold guidance conferences to disseminate in- formation and promote interest, and that, where this plan was not feasible, ad- vantage should be taken of all public occasions at which information on gui- dance might be presented; that material on guidance, including bibliography, be assembled and prepared for distribution to teachers; that forms for preserving the cumulative records of an individual be prepared for distribution; and that, in states in which revision of the curriculum is being made, a program of guidance be included.

    DIXIE STARTS SOMETHING · 1934 · DOI

  • Rankings shape the visibility and success of cultural products, yet their temporal dynamics remain underexplored when comparing distinct ranked objects within the same domain.

    Charting the life of Billboard hits through memory, turnover, and predictability · 2026

  • However, they are not without limitations, and it is often necessary for the analyst to return to classical harmony in order to obtain more precise answers to questions that might otherwise remain insufficiently addressed.

    Do we still need harmony? personal reflections on the crisis of contemporary studies of music harmony · 2026 · DOI

  • We conclude by briefly considering the boundary-breaching intimacy that self-scoring enables characters to forge with the audience, even as those connections remain elusive within the narrative worlds of the films themselves.

    Self-Scoring as Neoliberal Self-Care in the Early Films of Jim Jarmusch · 2026 · DOI

  • Yet, scarce research has documented the taste profiles of adolescents and their composition in relation to identity characteristics, especially in the current streaming era.

    Adolescents’ Music Tastes in the Streaming Era: The Case of Belgium · 2024 · DOI

  • Based on interviews with fourteen Finnish women classical music students and graduates from Finnish higher music education institutions, this article sheds light on the under-researched subject of emotional abuse in classical music education.

    Emotional Abuse in Classical Music Education in Finland: A Study of Finnish Women Musicians’ Experiences · 2023 · DOI

  • Meanwhile, a broader academic research on the phenomenon of melorecitation is lacking, aside from short dictionary descriptions as well as relatively recent connection with the performance style characteristic for rap music.

    Melodeklamacja, czyli pogranicza piosenki · 2023 · DOI

  • ’ In this article, we explain that this moment has already arrived, but has produced inconsistent results in these industries due to the unique cultural and structural obstacles they share, and which frustrate civil sphere actors’ attempts at civil repair.

    Accounting For the Limited Success of #MeToo in the Popular Music and Stand-Up Comedy Industries · 2023 · DOI

  • Abstract Rap battles are a growing phenomenon in China, but few studies have examined their interactional structure, especially from a multimodal perspective.

    Co-operative actions in Chinese freestyle rap battles: a case of <i>Iron Mic</i> · 2022 · DOI

  • Detailing how washing and preserving records became a commercialized, scientific, and often gendered caretaking process for collectors, the piece makes the case for studying under-explored dimensions of music production/consumption related to housekeeping, preservation, and embodied practices.

    Sticky fingers and smudged sound: vinyl records and the mess of media hygiene · 2022 · DOI

  • This article argues that Canada’s Black newspapers played a pivotal role in promoting Black performance during a time when they were scarcely covered in the dominant media.

    Black Media Reporting on Theater, Dance, and Jazz Clubs in Canada: From <i>Shuffle along</i> to Rockhead’s Paradise · 2021 · DOI

  • Abstract This article suggests that one of the understudied and substantive ways in which actors produce and transform social hierarchies and classifications is by aligning and mis-aligning genres.

    Genres in new economies of language · 2021 · DOI

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