Book Description:
Music is an art form whose medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art. To people in many cultures, music is inextricably intertwined into their way of life. Music is known to have many benefits for health, ranging from inducing relaxation and sleep to improving a depressed mood. Music also enhances cognitive function such as attention to task, communication, learning and memory. This new and important book gathers the latest research from around the globe in this dynamic field of study and highlights topics such as: rap music and its effect on sexual attitudes, music videos and risky driving, burnout and music use, music memory and the right hippocampus, and others.

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Table of Contents:
Preface

Chapter 1. The Effect of Sexually Explicit Rap Music on Sexual Attitudes, Norms, and Behaviors, pp. 1-29
(Lucrezia M. Alcorn, Anthony F. Lemieux, Purchase College, State University of New York)

Chapter 2. Musical Emotion Assessment, Brain Correlates, and Gender Differences, pp. 31-56
(José Luis Díaz, Enrique O. Flores-Gutiérrez, Yolanda del Río-Portilla, María Corsi Cabrera, Facultad de Psicología, Posgrado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)

Chapter 3. The Impact of Adolescents’ Music Video Viewing on Risky Driving, pp. 57-74
(Kathleen Beullens, Keith Roe, Jan Van den Bulck, Leuven School for Mass Communication Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

Chapter 4. Music Strategies to Improve Health and Safety, pp. 75-90
(Carol E. Smith, Marilyn Werkowitch, Ubolrat Piamjariyakul, Faye Clements, Helen Schaag, Emily Dauz, University of Kansas School of Nursing, Kansas City, Kansas, and others)

Chapter 5. Burnout and Music Use in a High-Cognitive Demand Occupation, pp. 91-103
(Teresa Lesiuk, Frost School of Music, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida)

Chapter 6. Heavy Metal, Country Music, and Personality: Reconsidering the Stereotypes, pp. 105-116
(Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC)

Chapter 7. Music Memory and Right Hippocampus, pp. 117-126
(Takamitsu Watanabe, Hideyuki Kikyo, Department of Physiology, the University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan and others)

Chapter 8. Cerebral Areas Involved in Music Perception: Studying Musicogenic Epilepsy, pp. 127-132
(Francesca Pittau, Francesca Bisulli, Carlotta Stipa, Ilaria Naldi, Laura Licchetta, Lidia Di Vito, Daniela Cevolani, Raffaele Agati, Paolo Tinuper, Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, and others)

Chapter 9. Music Source Separation: Methods and Applications, pp. 133-158
(Maximo Cobos, Jose L. Lopez, Institute for Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM), Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain)

Chapter 10. Copyright Protection of Music Using Digital Watermaking Based on Echo Effect, pp. 159-190
(Nguyen T.H. Lien, Fangyan Dong, Hajime Nobuhara, Kaoru Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan and others)

Chapter 11. Can the Machine Play Classical Music like a Human? A Survey in Computational Music Performance, pp. 191-203
(Miguel Degado, Waldo Fajardo, Miguel Molina-Solana, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain)

Index