Music Studies Research Articles

Gamified Learning Intervention to Promote Music Literacy and Creativity in Elementary Music Education

Music education often emphasises the acquisition of practical components, with students assessed on their ability to handle and operate musical instruments. The theoretical aspects of music education, particularly music theory, have been relegated to a secondary role. However, recent research has shown that music creativity, including composition, improvisation, performance of composed music, and ideation, is a core element in music studies. Teaching music theory is becoming less popular among music teachers, and consequently, the stigma associated with learning music theory limits students' ability to explore music independently. This study proposes a gamified learning intervention through Music Rhythm Tour Board Game to promote music literacy and creativity in elementary music education. Observations on players’ behaviour were conducted to test the efficacy of the board game in promoting music composition. The gameplay analysis showed how the intervention successfully reduced the stigma associated with constructing rhythmic phrases, facilitating a smoother transition to music composition and rhythmic sight reading (kinetic responses of players). The findings showed that Music Rhythm Board Game effectively reflects the potential of capitalising on collaborative structures of cooperative board games. It provides a promising avenue for improving music education by encouraging students to develop their creativity and musical skills through gamified learning.

Musical Aptitude and the Acquisition of Pitch and Duration in L2 Vowels

Music and language have been believed to be processed similarly in the brain. Studies have compared the processing of vowels and music, as they share spectral and temporal features such as pitch and timing. When comparing music and language skills the question arises whether music skills are inherent, measured with aptitude, or acquired, measured with experience. This article focused on musical aptitude studies. It was found that musical aptitude predicted non-native speech-sound processing better than musical experience. It is proposed that music and language skills are interconnected as greater overlaps in neural processing of music and speech were found for musicians than nonmusicians, and as individuals with no musical experience but with high L2 production skills were found to have high musical aptitude. Furthermore, spectral sensitivity was found to be the primary partial mediator of the link between musicality and non-native speech-sound processing, with temporal sensitivity having no role.

Identification and Illustration of Means to a Critical Assessment of Music and Health Research Literature

In 2019, the WHO released a scoping review investigating art therapies in evidence-based healthcare practices to identify and understand the gaps in the literature. However, the studies curated were not evaluated for their quality. To address this limitation, several assessment tools to critically appraise music-based research studies that investigate therapies pertaining to preventative healthcare were investigated. Two critical appraisal tools were selected for their robustness and appropriateness for the studies in question: the Joanna Briggs Institute checklists and the Music-Based Intervention Guidelines. These tools were tested by two assessors on a total of 23 music studies from the Preventative and Prevention Health section of the WHO report. Based on the requirements for each critical appraisal tool, seven studies received a full assessment utilizing both checklists. Of these seven, two studies scored on the higher index, indicating that the studies followed a detailed methodology to provide concrete and accurate results. The findings of the study highlighted the limitations of study designs and music-based interventions. With this information, beneficial recommendations for future research in this domain are provided to improve the quality of research, ensuring its place in evidence-based healthcare practices.

Functional gradients in prefrontal regions and somatomotor networks reflect the effect of music training experience on cognitive aging.

Studies showed that the top-down control of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) on sensory/motor cortices changes during cognitive aging. Although music training has demonstrated efficacy on cognitive aging, its brain mechanism is still far from clear. Current music intervention studies have paid insufficient attention to the relationship between PFC and sensory regions. Functional gradient provides a new perspective that allows researchers to understand network spatial relationships, which helps study the mechanism of music training that affects cognitive aging. In this work, we estimated the functional gradients in four groups, young musicians, young control, older musicians, and older control. We found that cognitive aging leads to gradient compression. Compared with young subjects, older subjects presented lower and higher principal gradient scores in the right dorsal and medial prefrontal and the bilateral somatomotor regions, respectively. Meanwhile, by comparing older control and musicians, we found a mitigating effect of music training on gradient compression. Furthermore, we revealed that the connectivity transitions between prefrontal and somatomotor regions at short functional distances are a potential mechanism for music to intervene in cognitive aging. This work contributes to understanding the neuroplasticity of music training on cognitive aging.

Branding Strategies of Outdoor Music Festival: A Case Study of Strawberry Festival

With the change of music industry, the traditional recording industry began to decline, and diversified music forms were accepted by people. Outdoor music festival is one of the representatives, it is gradually gaining more and more attention due to high participation and immersive on-site experience and occupying more share in entertainment market. Compared with other forms of music performance, music festival is not only a platform to show a variety of styles and types of music performance, but also can be integrated with tourism and other forms of business, forming a comprehensive entertainment industry model. Even in the post-pandemic world, music festivals still show a astonishingly development trend. In the face of fierce competition in the music market, how to play the role of branding and establish a new normal for event promoting should be considered by music festival organizersThe study took outdoor music festival as the research object, case on China Strawberry Music Festival to elaborate the development status of China's outdoor music festival and the problems existing in the branding process, discussed the developing pattern of strawberry Music Festival branding from two aspects of positioning and strategy.The study investigated the promotion effect of exact branding strategies on the development of music festivals, and proposed a practical path for the branding music festivals using brand marketing theory and literature research. The study puts forward the strategy of outdoor music festival branding in brand positioning, brand communication, brand management and other aspects, and concludes the importance of combining the analysis of music festival and city.

Exploring the impact of hearing loss through music, irony, and rhythm

Hearing loss is associated with challenges such as listening in noise, misinterpreting emotion, distorted music perception, and poorer quality of life outcomes relative to hearing peers. Despite this, research examining perceptual abilities for individuals with hearing loss has overwhelmingly focussed on measuring a narrow representation of speech perception. These typically include tasks ranging from the perception of simple words-in-quiet to more complex speech-in-noise. However, the full range of human communication extends far beyond this. In this talk, we will present several studies exploring topics that extend beyond traditional and contemporary approaches to perception. First, a music training study for children with hearing loss that enhanced both speech and psychosocial outcomes. Second, a paralinguistic study examining irony comprehension in children with hearing loss. Finally, an examination of rhythm and speech correlates for older adults with hearing aids, and how this can inform the focus of future intervention studies. Findings from these studies underscore the importance of extending our focus beyond traditional perceptual outcomes.

Efficiency of technology for early identification of giftedness in children aged 6-7 through contemporary art

Introduction. The efficiency of early identification of children’s giftedness by means of contemporary art in the conditions of “art workshop” is mediated by the extent to which the technology used for this purpose meets the scientific ideas about comparative effectiveness of implemented diagnostics. However, the efficiency of ISKRA technology for early identification of endowments based on contemporary art has not yet been a subject of special research. Research objective: to analyse and discuss the effectiveness of early identification of giftedness through contemporary art. Materials and methods. The experiment involved 130 preschoolers aged from 6 to 7, attending kindergartens in town Otradnoe, Samara region of the Russian Federation. The giftedness identification methods included: 1) the test “Art+”, realising the idea of duo-vector endowments (music and mathematics, fine arts and sports, music and language studies); 2) a number of tasks developed by the authors of the given article, involving a contemporary art component, which form altogether the educational module “Acquaintance with contemporary art”. The methods of mathematical statistics involved the Mann – Whitney U test, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Results. The ISKRA technology is based on the current knowledge about giftedness, prepared, for due application to meet the solution of practical problems, in the course of the realisation of a 2018 research project supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. The proposed diagnostic toolkit is centred on the “Art+” methodology which uses the principles of cybernetics in the organisation of the educational “art workshop” environment enriched with works of modern art (photography and video art objects, music, literary texts), materials for creativity (art-specific, pertaining to natural world and also to mathematics, sports, languages). The “Art+” methodology differs from other methods of revealing giftedness in that it focuses on duo-vector complexes: talents for music and mathematics (subtest “Melody of Numbers”), fine arts and sports (subtest “Living Ornament”), music and languages (subtest “Signals from Another Planet”). The second component of ISKRA is curricula for 16 sessions in the “art workshop” for 6 – 7-year old children, based on the material and methods of contemporary art integrating child’s art endeavours with other activities in order to activate “gifted behaviour”, and constituting the training module “Getting to Know Modern Art”. The observation of changes in the child’s behaviour under the influence of art in the process of related activity with creative elements makes it possible to reveal manifestations of giftedness, complementing the results of testing held twice – before and after the educational module classes. The research showed that the “art workshop” classes based on ISKRA technology had a positive effect on all 12 indicators of “gifted behaviour” (p < 0.01) with a varying degree of statistical significance. Conclusion. The obtained results made it possible to consider, in terms of the problem of early identification of giftedness, the possibility to identify the duo-vector giftedness of children, that is activated in response to the use of artistic means; to determine the specifics of “gifted behaviour” depending on the child’s ability to master the ISKRA educational technology that encompasses works of art combined with specific materials and techniques of contemporary art. The research makes it possible to set the guidelines for varying the model of early identification of giftedness and improving the scientific and methodological support for educational process involving gifted children aged 6-7.

Review: Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop, by Alexandra M. Apolloni

Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop, by Alexandra M. Apolloni Alexandra M. Apolloni. Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 336 pages. Sarah Dougher Sarah Dougher Portland State University Sarah Dougher is a writer, educator, and musician from Portland, Oregon. Her current work as a professor at Portland State focuses on strengthening the pathways for high school seniors into higher education, especially immigrant, first-generation and other historically excluded students. In addition to releasing eight albums of music, she also helped found the Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls, developed educational programs for unsheltered youth in the Portland area, and has written extensively about girls, music and social change in both popular and academic venues. She is currently working on a book of essays. Email: sed@pdx.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: sed@pdx.edu Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (1): 133–135. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.133 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sarah Dougher; Review: Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop, by Alexandra M. Apolloni. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2023; 35 (1): 133–135. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.133 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search The vocal performance of girls and young women, whether on the stage as singers or in the performance of gendered expectations in daily life, is a complex phenomenon. We need only cast our ears towards the screams coming from the Linda Lindas, a contemporary LA-based, multiracial, riot grrrl-descendent band, who scored a viral hit in 2021 with “Racist Sexist Boy.” The song’s vast digital circulation signaled fascination, if not celebration, of the group’s full-throated musical confrontation of oppression. The range with which girls can make vocal music is wider now than it has ever been, and perhaps because of our access to personal technologies, girls can create and broadcast their voices more easily. As listeners, we are also able to access more diverse voices, should we go looking for them. Alexandra Apolloni’s Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop, gives contemporary assessments of girls’ performance and vocalized resistance... You do not currently have access to this content.

Hip Hop Mun Ikjeom

Research Article| March 01 2023 Hip Hop Mun Ikjeom: The Life and Music of Hyun Jin Young Myoung-Sun Song Myoung-Sun Song Dr. Myung-Sun Song is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the representations of race, gender, sexuality, class, and national identity in Korean media and popular culture. She is the author of Hanguk Hip Hop: Global Rap in South Korea (2019, Palgrave Macmillan), the first scholarly book-length study in English or Korean on the subject of Korean hip hop. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (1): 4–19. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.4 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Myoung-Sun Song; Hip Hop Mun Ikjeom: The Life and Music of Hyun Jin Young. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2023; 35 (1): 4–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search In the early to mid-1990s, groups such as Hyun Jin Young and Wawa, Seo Taiji and Boys, and DEUX helped introduce hip hop to Korean audiences by incorporating rap into mainstream dance music and performance. This style will later be labelled “rap dance,” a precedent to K-pop, where rap is frequently formulated into segments of dance songs.1 During this period, television—particularly channels like AFKN and later MTV—served as a gateway to American hip hop for Korean youth. An important coinciding moment is the 1992 LA Riots, which would have an impact on how Koreans viewed Black American communities and how hip hop was perceived in South Korea during its formative years. These sociocultural and historical conditions set the backdrop for the rise of Hanguk hip hop [Korean hip hop] from the mid- to late-1990s, when Korean fans of American hip hop—through the help of technology, most notably personal computer... You do not currently have access to this content.

Reflections on the International Society for Metal Music Studies 5th Biennial Conference, National Autonomous University, Mexico City, 7–10 June 2022

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Contributors’ Notes

Other| March 01 2023 Contributors’ Notes Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (1): 145–146. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.145 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Contributors’ Notes. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2023; 35 (1): 145–146. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.145 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search Carlos Garrido Castellano is a lecturer at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at University College Cork, where he coordinates a BA program on Portuguese studies and the MA in Global Languages and Cultures. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art (2019), Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future (2021) and Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System (2022). He has recently edited two special issues on anticolonial and decolonial aesthetics (one in Third Text in 2020 and another in Interventions Journal in 2022) as well as a volume on contemporary museums and coloniality in the Iberian context (2022). Sarah Dougher is a writer, educator, and musician from Portland, Oregon. Her current work as a professor at Portland State focuses on strengthening the pathways for high school seniors into higher education, especially immigrant, first-generation and other historically excluded students.... You do not currently have access to this content.

Review: Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J. Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm, by Dan Charnas

Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J. Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm, by Dan Charnas Dan Charnas. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J. Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2022. 458 pages. Kellie Hay Kellie Hay Oakland University Kellie Hay is a professor of cultural studies. She examines the ways in which under-resourced communities use cultural forms such as music, dance, and poetry to forge social change. She is particularly interested in the role that affect and aesthetics play in shaping community hip hop. She published Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit (UC Press) with Rebekah Farrugia. She has also published in the Music and Politics, Popular Music and Society, Popular Music Studies, and the Journal of American Culture. Email: hay@oakland.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: hay@oakland.edu Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (1): 136–138. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.136 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kellie Hay; Review: Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J. Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm, by Dan Charnas. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2023; 35 (1): 136–138. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.136 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search Dan Charnas has written other important, evocative books about the business of music industries. However, Dilla Time is his magnum opus. Documenting Detroit hip-hop producer James Dewitt Yancy’s (aka Jay Dee and J. Dilla) story, Charnas creates a cyclone of corporal relational tension that is indelibly linked to Dilla’s formation of sonic deconstruction, time feel, and sound sequencing. As whimsical with prose as an emcee is with bars, Charnas wields words in ways that transform readers into visual imagineers. Reading Dilla Time is like watching a documentary in a planetarium-sized space and being late for unexpected sounding beats. The book is organized into 16 chapters that thematize Dilla’s tumultuous musical life. Charnas assigns chapter names, such as “Wrong,” “Straight Time”/“Swing Time,” “Machine Time,” “Sample time,” “Dilla Time,” “Pay Jay,” “Partners,” and “Fragments.” The biographical side of Charnas' prose reads like a page-turning novel, while his richly historicized and highly technical... You do not currently have access to this content.

Review: “Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, by Allen Lowe

Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: “Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, by Allen Lowe Allen Lowe. “Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, vols. 1 & 2. Hamden, CT: Constant Sorrow Press, 2020/ 2021. x + 352 pages, 397 pages, 30 CDs. Eric Lott Eric Lott The Graduate Center, CUNY Eric Lott teaches American studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Oxford UP, 1993; 20th Anniversary ed., 2013), The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual (Basic Books, 2006), and Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism (Harvard UP, 2017). He is finishing a book called If Hooks Could Kill: Sonic Situations and Postwar Problems. Email: elott@gc.cuny.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: elott@gc.cuny.edu Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (1): 139–144. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.139 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Eric Lott; Review: “Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, by Allen Lowe. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2023; 35 (1): 139–144. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.139 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search If you too have been waiting for a magisterial study of popular music animated by traditional racism and religiosity, victims of irony, dynamics of resistance, Christian warfare, God’s militia, the Confederacy in absentia, crimes of sentiment, country folk’s synchronized swim, praying for good sex, proletarian orchestras (in church), worldly cluelessness, the rhythm method (“a more subtle kind of resistance”), plant-based courtship (I’ll poke it through the window), love and booty, white moments of feeling, Death Be Not Barefoot, out of the mouths of white people, victims of style, and the Hawaiian version of the Baja marimba band, the wait is over. Allen Lowe’s “Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960 is here. The foregoing names only the first half of its table of contents more or less (vol. 1), but volume 2 follows suit (e.g., the minstrel wound, hillbillies with 401k’s, gospel... You do not currently have access to this content.

Karawitans’ musician brain adaptation: standardized low-resolution electromagnetic tomography study

&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The rapid advancement of music studies has resulted in a plethora of multidisciplinary participants. Rather than distinguishing between musicians and non-musicians’ brain activity, the current study indicated differences in brain activity while musicians listened to music based on their musical experience. In Go/NoGo response task reaction times, it showed that effects between treatments and visits were different across periods of cognitive function tests. The cognitive function at post-listening assessment out-performed the pre-listening in terms of reaction times (531.94 (±24.70) msec for post-listening assessment; and 557.13 (±37.15) msec for pre-listening assessment. The results of using electroencephalography (EEG) recording in an experimental manner with Karawitan musicians (N=20) revealed that listening to unknown cultural music, Mozart's Piano Sonata in C Major, and western music resulted in increased brain activity. Furthermore, while Karawitan musicians were listening to Mozart's Piano Sonata in C Major, the major brain activity occurred in the frontal lobe. This outcome will elicit additional consideration of music's integration, such as neuroscience of music.&lt;/span&gt;

Editors’ Note

Editorial| March 01 2023 Editors’ Note Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (1): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Editors’ Note. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2023; 35 (1): 1–3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search We would like to kick off volume 35 of this journal with a warm welcome to the newest associate editor of our “Field Notes” section, Jonathan J. Leal. Jonathan joins us from the University of Southern California, where he is assistant professor of English. In addition to his scholarship on bebop and post-war experimental popular music, Jonathan brings years of experience as a professional musician, producer, sound designer, and public writer. He has already brought us some great ideas, and we look forward to working with him. Jonathan’s arrival comes as John Vilanova finishes his tenure as an associate editor with the journal. Thank you, John, for all of your hard work! As we write this editors’ note, the United States is in the midst of a midterm election. And coincidentally, that backdrop of political consequences has shaped many of the articles in this issue. This issue opens with a... You do not currently have access to this content.

Editorial

The editorial introduces Ross Hagen as a new member of the editorial team and outlines the articles and reviews in Metal Music Studies (MMS) 9.1.

Neuroplastic Changes in Addiction Memory-How Music Therapy and Music-Based Intervention May Reduce Craving: A Narrative Review.

Recent findings indicate that Music Therapy (MT) and Music-Based Interventions (MBIs) may reduce craving symptoms in people with Substance Use Disorders (SUD). However, MT/MBIs can lead SUD clients to recall memories associated with their drug history and the corresponding strong emotions (addiction memories). Craving is a central component of SUD, possibly linked to relapse and triggered by several factors such as the recall of memories associated with the drug experience. Therefore, to address the topic of what elements can account for an improvement in craving symptoms after MT/MBIs, we conducted a narrative review that (1) describes the brain correlates of emotionally salient autobiographical memories evoked by music, (2) outlines neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies suggesting how the experience of craving may encompass the recall of emotionally filled moments, and (3) points out the role of perineuronal nets (PNNs) in addiction memory neuroplasticity. We highlight how autobiographical memory retrieval, music-evoked autobiographical memories, and craving share similar neural activations with PNNs which represent a causal element in the processing of addiction memory. We finally conclude by considering how the neuroplastic characteristics of addiction memory might represent the ground to update and/or recalibrate, within the therapy, the emotional content related to the recall.

Joni Mitchell's Urges for Going, 1965–67: Coffeehouses, Counterculture, and Care

AbstractJoni Mitchell's life was completely transformed in 1965–67: She became pregnant, was abandoned by the child's father, gave birth to her daughter, placed her baby for adoption, married and subsequently divorced Chuck Mitchell, and moved between several cities in North America. In this article, I center this often overlooked period of Joni's life—which she herself has referred to as “this three-year period of childhood's end”—and move away from the usual focus on her studio albums. I contextualize this discussion within 1960s counterculture and examine how these turbulent changes are refracted through her music making, specifically through a selection of early recordings of her song “Urge for Going.” In so doing, I seek alternatives to the prevalent and influential theories of musical persona in popular music studies, arguing instead for the merits of an approach which strives for an intellectual disposition of care.

Analysis of international research trends in online music education

본 연구는 온라인 음악교육의 기초 연구로서 해외 온라인 관련 음악교육의 연구 동향 고찰을 목적으로 한다. 국제 전문 학술지에 수록된 온라인 음악교육 관련 연구 75편을 연도와 국가, 연구 주제 및 대상, 연구 방법의 범주에서 분석한 결과는 다음과 같았다. 첫째, 2000년대 이후 출간된 온라인 관련 음악교육 연구는 2000년대 10.7%, 2010년대 41.3%로 증가하였으며, 2020년대에는 2020년부터 2022년의 3년간임에도 불구하고 48.0%를 차지하는 급격한 증가를 보였다. 둘째, 온라인 관련 음악교육 연구가 가장 활발하게 이루어지는 나라는 미국으로 전체 연구의 29.3%를 차지하였으며, 다음으로 영국과 다국적 연구가 각각 9.3%를 차지하였다. 셋째, 가장 많이 연구된 주제는 온라인 교수·학습 방법으로 41.3%를 차지하였으며, 다음으로 온라인 교육에 대한 인식 및 경험이 29.3%로 나타났다. 이외에도 온라인 음악교육에서 미디어와 기술 측면을 고찰한 연구와 교사교육 연구도 수행되었다. 넷째, 연구 대상은 두 가지 이상의 연구 대상이 참여한 복합 대상의 비중이 28.0%로 가장 높았으며, 다음으로 교사가 25.3%로 나타났다. 다섯째, 연구 방법은 질적 연구가 54.7%로 과반수를 차지하였고, 다음으로 양적, 질적 자료를 모두 활용한 혼합 연구가 24.0%로 나타났다.This pilot study aims to examine international research trends in online music education. The following categories of online music education studies published in professional journals were analyzed: year of publication, author's country, research topic, subject, and research method. The results were as follows: first, a total of 75 studies on online music education published showed a steady increase of 10.7% in the 2000's and 41.3% in the 2010's, followed by a rapid increase during the 2020's. Papers published from 2020-2022 accounted for a high proportion, 48%, of the total articles. Second, research on online music education is most active in the United States, accounting for 29.3% of the total research. Next, British and multinational studies accounted for 9.3% each. Third, the most frequently examined topic was teaching and learning methods, 41.3%, followed by perceptions and experience of online education, 29.3%. Studies on media and technology also accounted for 16%, and research on teacher education accounted for 13.3%.ﾠA variety of subjects, such as students, teachers, professional musicians, and adults of various ages and vocations, participated in the studies and the results showed that a combination among the groups was the highest (28%), followed by teachers at 25.3%. Fifth, qualitative research accounted for the majority, 54.7%, followed by mixed method, 24%.

Can motivation and intentions of parental support predict musical achievement before the commencement of musical studies at the elementary school level?

Admission procedures to elementary school in Music Conservatoires in Portugal consist in the assessment of aural aptitude. This investigation aims at assessing the power of aural aptitude at predicting future musical achievement as well as the assessment of two other variables for the same purpose: motivation and intentions of parental support. For that matter, our sample includes the cohort of the admitted candidates and their parents to the 2019 to 2020 academic year. We used a longitudinal approach that followed the musical achievement of the sample during the 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021 academic years. Questionnaires were administered to both children and parents to collect information on motivation to learn a musical instrument and anticipation of parental support provision. Our results point that, after 2 years of music education, neither of the tested variables were able to predict the students’ musical achievement. These results suggest that the model of admission procedures to Music Conservatoires based on aural aptitude must be rethought and that this line of investigation could be revisited later when our sample enters middle school to assess again the predicting power of motivation and parental support.