The evolution of popular music: USA 1960–2010

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Mauch, Matthias ^a   MacCallum, Robert M ^b   Levy, Mark ^c   Leroi, Armand M ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Lastfm   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Diversity; Popular music; Stylistic revolutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958073715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150081     Document Type: Article

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