Supplementary Material for "Style and Flow: A Commentary on Duinker & Martin"
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2017
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Ohio State University. Libraries
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Duinker and Martin's excellent study presents a wealth of new data, findings, and analyses. It represents a welcome focus on the details of musical aspects of hip-hop, as well as an effort to combine those details with more global aspects of recordings in order to clarify what our notions of hip-hop 'style' or 'sound' are based on. The examination of instrumental backgrounds and production parameters is particularly novel. I would suggest, however, that the study could have benefitted from the use of details pertaining to flow, particularly in the examination of trends over time and stylistic sub-groupings. I show that several parameters pertaining to the complexity, rhythmic placement, and repetitiveness of rhymes help track changes in hip-hop style over time, distinguish between more and less similar songs, and capture effects of apparent time within the same actual time period.
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hip-hop, corpus, flow, style, rhyme
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Katz, Jonah (2017). Supplementary Material for "Style and Flow: A Commentary on Duinker & Martin." Empirical Musicology Review, 12(1-2), 101-108. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v12i1-2.5926