The study of music theory and popular music analysis continues to evolve as scholars integrate traditional analytical frameworks with innovative methodologies. Recent work in the field has broadened ...

A data analyst listened to decades of Billboard's top tunes and discovered that a once-ubiquitous compositional tool, the key change, has all but disappeared from modern hits. The biggest hits in pop ...

Joel V. Hunt, Ph.D. is a versatile composer, performer, educator, and scholar whose work bridges jazz, popular music, interactive electroacoustic music, and algorithmic composition. His recent ...

I never thought of Lana Del Rey as a piano artist per se, but clearly, she is. Though she doesn’t play piano herself, the instrument features prominently in much of her music, and centrally on her ...

Mitch is on vacation this week, so we're looking back at two conversations that we loved (and which just so happen to make up this month's radio version of North Words). The first is with playwright, ...

Joel V. Hunt, Ph.D. is a versatile composer, performer, educator, and scholar whose work bridges jazz, popular music, interactive electroacoustic music, and algorithmic composition. His recent ...

In lecture halls and dorm rooms across US campuses, a quiet but significant shift is taking place. Students are not only consuming pop culture, but dissecting it. What once passed as light ...

Technological advances of the digital era have forever changed how we listen to music. The ability to quickly shuffle or fast forward to the next song while listening to Spotify, Pandora, or other ...