1. Is there a Rhythm Of The Rain? An analysis of weather in popular music.
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Brown, Sally, Aplin, Karen L., Jenkins, Katie, Mander, Sarah, Walsh, Claire, and Williams, Paul D.
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SONGS , *WEATHER , *SUNSHINE , *RAINFALL , *SONG lyrics - Abstract
Weather is frequently used in music to frame events and emotions, yet quantitative analyses are rare. From a collated base set of 759 weather ‐ related songs, 419 were analysed based on listings from a karaoke database. This article analyses the 20 weather types described, frequency of occurrence, genre, keys, mimicry, lyrics and songwriters. Vocals were the principal means of communicating weather: sunshine was the most common, followed by rain, with weather depictions linked to the emotions of the song. Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the most weather ‐ related songs, partly following their experiences at the time of writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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