Pop-rock musicians: Assessment of their satisfaction provided by hearing protectors

Pop-rock musicians are at risk of developing hearing loss and other symptoms related to amplified music. Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the satisfaction provided by the use of hearing protection in pop-rock musicians. Study design: Contemporary cohort study. Materials and Methods: A study of 23 male pop-rock musicians, aged between 25 to 45 years. After audiological evaluation (pure tone audiometry, middle ear analysis, TEOAE and DPOAE) hearing protective devices were provided to be used for three months. After that musicians answered a satisfaction assessment questionnaire. Results: The prevalence of hearing loss was of 21.7%. The most common complaints about the hearing protectors were: autophonia, pressure in the ears, interference in high frequencies perception and full time use of the hearing protector during concerts. There was a positive correlation between a reduction in tinnitus after the use of the HPD with the following complaints: tinnitus after beginning the career (p=0.044), discomfort with the sound intensity in the work place (p=0.009) and intolerance to loud sound (p=0.029). Conclusions: There was a high prevalence of hearing loss and a positive tendency towards the use of the ear protector device among the sample population.

A contracultura no fenómeno pop/rock português da década de 90

Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação Variante de Estudos dos Media e Jornalismo

Estilo musical : pop-rock latino.

Suplemento Música y más música, n. 2

O pop rock e a escritura poética em Voyages de l’Autre Côté, de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio

A literatura contemporânea expressa o rompimento das fronteiras entre a cultura erudita e a cultura de massa ou comercial, criando formas híbridas que convivem no interior do texto. No romance Voyages de l’autre cote (1975), de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, as canções do pop rock embalam as viagens da fada Naja Naja e de seus amigos em busca do ‘outro lado’. Desta forma, a impregnação da música popular à escritura poética, parece ajudar a libertar a imaginação, preparando as personagens para o encontro do infinito sensível.

Audiological and electrophysiological assessment of professional pop/rock musicians

In the present study, we evaluated peripheral and central auditory pathways in professional musicians (with and without hearing loss) compared to non-musicians. The goal was to verify if music exposure could affect auditory pathways as a whole. This is a prospective study that compared the results obtained between three groups (musicians with and without hearing loss and non-musicians). Thirty-two male individuals participated and they were assessed by: Immittance measurements, pure-tone air conduction thresholds at all frequencies from 0.25 to 20 kHz, Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions, Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR), and Cognitive Potential. The musicians showed worse hearing thresholds in both conventional and high frequency audiometry when compared to the non-musicians; the mean amplitude of Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions was smaller in the musicians group, but the mean latencies of Auditory Brainstem Response and Cognitive Potential were diminished in the musicians when compared to the non-musicians. Our findings suggest that the population of musicians is at risk for developing music-induced hearing loss. However, the electrophysiological evaluation showed that latency waves of ABR and P300 were diminished in musicians, which may suggest that the auditory training to which these musicians are exposed acts as a facilitator of the acoustic signal transmission to the cortex.

Popular Singing: a practical guide to Pop, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country and Gospel.

Donna Soto-Morettini is one of the top performance coaches in the industry and has worked as casting director and performance coach for the hit BBC reality casting shows, I'd Do Anything, Any Dream Will Do, and How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria. She was the founding senior vocal coach at Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Based on her years of teaching experience in a multitude of styles, this unique book is a practical guide to exploring the singing voice and will help to enhance vocal confidence in a range of styles including Pop, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Country and Gospel. Both singers and voice teachers will benefit from the clear analysis of these styles and advice on how to improve performance. Popular Singing provides effective alternatives to traditional voice training methods and demonstrates how these methods can be used to create a flexible and unique sound. A free CD of voice demonstrations is also included.

O poder discursivo do rock brasileiro na mídia em Pais e filhos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Dynamical analysis of compositions

This paper analyzes musical opus from the point of view of two mathematical tools, namely the entropy and the multidimensional scaling (MDS). The Fourier analysis reveals a fractional dynamics, but the time rhythm variations are diluted along the spectrum. The combination of time-window entropy and MDS copes with the time characteristics and is well suited to treat a large volume of data. The experiments focus on a large number of compositions classified along three sets of musical styles, namely “Classical”, “Jazz”, and “Pop & Rock” compositions. Without lack of generality, the present study describes the application of the tools and the sets of musical compositions in a methodology leading to clear conclusions, but extensions to other possibilities are straightforward. The results reveal significant differences in the musical styles, demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed strategy and motivating further developments toward a dynamical analysis of musical compositions.

Popular music exhibitions in Portugal: practices of representation from 2007 to 2013

This thesis focuses on the representation of Popular Music in museums by mapping, analyzing, and characterizing its practices in Portugal at the beginning of the 21st century. Now that museums' ability to shape public discourse is acknowledged, the examination of popular music's discourses in museums is of the utmost importance for Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies as well as for Museum Studies. The concept of 'heritage' is at the heart of this processes. The study was designed with the aim of moving the exhibiting of popular music in museums forward through a qualitative inquiry of case studies. Data collection involved surveying pop-rock music exhibitions as a qualitative sampling of popular music exhibitions in Portugal from 2007 to 2013. Two of these exhibitions were selected as case studies: No Tempo do Gira-Discos: Um Percurso pela Produção Fonográfica Portuguesa at the Museu da Música in Lisbon in 2007 (also Faculdade de Letras, 2009), and A Magia do Vinil, a Música que Mudou a Sociedade at the Oficina da Cultura in Almada in 2008 (and several other venues, from 2009 to 2013). Two specific domains were observed: popular music exhibitions as instances of museum practice and museum professionals. The first domain encompasses analyzing the types of objects selected for exhibition; the interactive museum practices fostered by the exhibitions; the concepts and narratives used to address popular music discursively, as well as the interpretative practices they allow. The second domain, focuses museum professionals and curators of popular music exhibitions as members of a group, namely their goals, motivations and perspectives. The theoretical frameworks adopted were drawn from the fields of ethnomusicology, popular music studies, and museum studies. The written materials of the exhibitions were subjected of methods of discourse analysis methods. Semi-structured interviews with curators and museum professional were also conducted and analysed. From the museum studies perspective, the study research suggests that the practice adopted by popular music museums largely matches that of conventional museums. From the ethnomusicological and popular music studies stand point, the two case studies reveal two distinct conceptual worlds: the first exhibition, curated by an academic and an independent researcher, points to a mental configuration where popular music is explained through a framework of genres supported by different musical practices. Moreover, it is industry actors such as decision makers and gatekeepers that govern popular music, which implies that the visitors' romantic conception of the musician is to some extent dismantled; the second exhibition, curated by a record collector and specialist, is based on a more conventional process of the everyday historical speech that encodes a mismatch between “good” and “bad music”. Data generated by a survey shows that only one curator, in fact that of my first case study, has an academic background. The backgrounds of all the others are in some way similar to the curator of the second case study. Therefore, I conclude that the second case study best conveys the current practice of exhibiting Popular Music in Portugal.

Que música ouvimos? Estudo exploratório com crianças em contexto de creche, pré-escolar e familiar

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar

Do palco ao público: os protagonistas da comunicação de festivais de música em Portugal e Espanha

Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (área de especialização em Publicidade e Relações Públicas)

Omat rummut tutuiksi: tutkimus rumpukalvojen ja virittämisen vaikutuksesta rumpusoundiin

Tämän työn tavoite oli selvittää miten rumpukalvoilla ja virittämisellä voidaan vaikuttaa rumpujen soundiin. Voiko samasta rumpusetistä saada hyvän soundin niin rockin kuin jazzinkin soittoon? Miten kannattaa menetellä jos konsertissa soitetaan tyyliltään hyvin erilaisia kappaleita? Lähtökohtana oli yksi rumpusetti jolla testattiin neljäkymmentäyksi uutta rumpukalvoa erilaisin virein. Kaikki kokeilut tehtiin studiossa ja niistä äänitettiin näytteet. Miri Miettinen toimi yhteistyökumppanina käytännön studiotyössä toimien äänittäjänä sekä toi pidemmän kokemuksen tuomaa osaamista virittämiseen. Kirjoitin aiheesta tiivistetyn artikkelin Riffi-lehteen. Artikkeli on julkaistu numerossa 4/2006. Lehti on liitteenä työssä. Tämä soveltava tutkimus voi olla myös esimerkki muille kuinka perehtyä omiin rumpuihinsa. Empiirinen kokemus tällaisesta työsta helpottaa toimintaa rumpalina. Rummut saa nopeammin ja helpommin kuulostamaan siltä kuin pitäisi. Tulos-osiossa käsitellään rumpujen virittämistä. Tutkimuksen myötä tulin tulokseen että käytettävä rumpukalvo antaa soundille ominaisen sävynsä, virityksellä se saadaan kuulostamaan musiikkityyliin sopivalta. Jotkut kalvot soveltuvat ominaisuuksiensa puolesta tiettyyn tyylin paremmin kuin toiset. Rumpujen virittämisen lisäksi tulos-osion kolme tärkeintä pääryhmää ovat pop/rock -soundi, jazz-soundi ja all-around -soundi. Niissä pohditaan soundia historian merkittävien rumpalien kautta. Jokaiseen pääryhmään kuuluu näyte-osio jossa esitellään tutkimuksessa saatuja tuloksia. Kahta saman kuuloista kalvoa ei tullut vastaan, toisin sanoen kalvot vaikuttaa merkittävästi rumpujen soundiin. Työn mukana on näyte-cd jolta voi kuunnella kaikki ääninäytteet. Raitalistan avulla jokainen voi vertailla kalvoja mieleisessään järjestyksessä. Kuuntelemalla samalla viretasolla tehtyjä eri kalvojen näytteitä peräkkäin, kuulee selkeästi niiden soundien eron.

Creación musical y audiovisual en la educación secundaria.

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