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Increasing evidence has uncovered associations between the cognition of abstract schemas and spatial perception. Here we examine such associations for Western musical syntax, tonality. Spatial ...

Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of the structural regularities underlying musical discourse are yet to be discovered and, accordingly, ...

World music often gets shafted in popular music discourse. Despite encompassing, well, the breadth of what the world offers musically, it often isn’t treated with the same reverence and passion ...