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The Effects of Popular Music in Television Advertisements on Branding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Have you ever found that the music a company chooses helps you understand its brand better, and did you eventually find yourself becoming a loyal customer? The goal of this project is to investigate whether or not connections like these occur and, if so,
Jillson, Amanda
core   +1 more source

Platform competition and strategic trade‐offs for complementors: Heterogeneous reactions to the entry of a new platform

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We study how the entry of a rival platform affects the strategies of the incumbent's complementors. The latter face a trade‐off: While the entry threatens their benefits from indirect network effects, it also allows them to escape intense within‐platform competition.
Johannes Loh, Ambre Elsas‐Nicolle
wiley   +1 more source

Mário de Andrade, the Other Way Around: Popular Music and "National Unconsciousness"

open access: yesEl Oído Pensante, 2016
In 1928, in his Ensaio sobre a Música Brasileira, Mário de Andrade lays the grounds for the creation of a nationalist school of music composition, arguing for the incorporation and elaboration of Brazilian popular music –its folklore, or rural music, as ...
Paula de Queiroz Carvalho Zimbres
doaj  

Music listening and cognitive abilities in 10 and 11 year-olds: The Blur effect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The spatial abilities of a large sample of 10- and 11-year-olds were tested after they listened to contemporary pop music, music composed by Mozart, or a discussion about the present experiment.
Hallam, Susan, Schellenberg, E.
core   +2 more sources

Beggars as Rational Choosers

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Memphis to Kingston: An Investigation into the Origin of Jamaican Ska [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The distinguishing characteristic of most Jamaican popular music recordings, including reggae and its predecessor, ska, is an emphasis on the offbeat or afterbeat instead of on the downbeat, as found in most US pop music.
Kauppila, Paul
core   +1 more source

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

The Dancing Ear: Popular Music between Swings and Cangotes

open access: yesEl Oído Pensante, 2015
This essay presents a theoretical analysis about the popular music listening. From the idea that the popular music is studied from an intellectual kind of listening, the essay invites the reader to think about other kinds of listening, which would be ...
Allan de Paula Oliveira
doaj  

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