The cover-version spectrum: Reframing the relationship between imitation and transformation in pop-punk cover-versions

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Rob Upton
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
The Relationship

‘Covering’ previously recorded tracks is a central aspect of popular music. Despite an abundance of examples, discourse related to cover-version tracks is limited and includes questionable application of dichotomizing terminology (‘cover’, ‘version’) that can cause problems for interpreting the cover-version genre and diminish the nuanced approaches taken by artists who produce cover-versions. Examining recordings from the Punk Goes… album series reveals many examples that go beyond the either–or cover/version dichotomy generally presented in musicology. As such, this article has three main aims: to investigate the ways in which Punk Goes… tracks innovatively move between the poles of cover and version, thus requiring a new analytical framework; to explore the connection between imitation and transformation to the ascription of cover and version; and to move beyond prior musicological scholarship that emphasizes formal elements and composer intention. This article presents a reclassification of the terms ‘cover’ and ‘version’ as extreme poles of a ‘cover-version spectrum’ dependent on the listener’s interpretation of the performative character. Analyses challenge assumptions that equate musical phrases with fixed musical meanings, suggesting instead that the interpreted manner of performance is more significant than syntactical concerns. This provides a structure for clearer examination of cover-versions and supports the view that semiotic methods are a vital tool in the analysis of recorded popular music.

Factors Influencing Customer’s Retail Chain Store Brand Choice Intention: Empirical Study of Circle K Stores in Hanoi

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thu Ha ◽  
Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen
Keyword(s):  
Brand Choice ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Store Brand ◽  
Chain Store ◽  
Retail Chain ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The retail market in Vietnam continues to grow with the entry of foreign retail brands and the strong rise of domestic businesses in expanding distribution networks and conquering consumer confidence. The appearance of more retail brands has created a fiercely competitive market. Based on the outcomes of previous research results on brand choice intention combined with a customer survey, the paper proposes an analytical framework and scales to examine the relationship of five elements including store image, price perception, risk perception, brand attitudes, brand awareness and retail brand choice intention with a case study of the Hanoi-based Circle K convenience store chain. These five elements are the precondition for retail businesses to develop their brands so as to attract customers.

Humanism and Music

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Driscoll
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Theoretical Relationship ◽  
Rock Band ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between humanism and music, giving attention to important theoretical and historical developments, before focusing on four brief case studies rooted in popular culture. The first turns to rock band Modest Mouse as an example of music as a space of humanist expression. Next, the chapter explores Austin-based Rock band Quiet Company and Westcoast rapper Ras Kass and their use of music to critique religion. Last, the chapter discusses contemporary popular music created by artificial intelligence and considers what non-human production of music suggests about the category of the human and, resultantly, humanism. These case studies give attention to the historical and theoretical relationship between humanism and music, and they offer examples of that relationship as it plays out in contemporary music.

scholarly journals Eating and body image: Does food insecurity make us feel thinner?

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaudia B. Ambroziak ◽  
Elena Azañón ◽  
Matthew R. Longo
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Eating Behavior ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Insurance Hypothesis ◽  
Central Aspect ◽  
Food Scarcity ◽  
Clinical Conditions ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractBody image distortions are common in healthy individuals and a central aspect of serious clinical conditions, such as eating disorders. This commentary explores the potential implications of body image and its distortions for the insurance hypothesis. In particular, we speculate that body image may be an intervening variable mediating the relationship between perceived food scarcity and eating behavior.

Pitchfork’s authenticity problem: the critical reception of Vampire Weekend and Lil Wayne

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Murray
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Commercial Success ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article turns a critical eye on the arguments deployed by Pitchfork, one of the most popular music websites, when reviewing two artists: Vampire Weekend and Lil Wayne. Rhetorically analyzing the reception of these two artists is illuminating because both had indie breakouts in 2008, both release genre-spanning music, and both have had over a decade of commercial success. However, Vampire Weekend’s whiteness enables them to benefit from authenticity tropes that are unavailable to Lil Wayne. The analysis will show how Lil Wayne is essentialized as a rapper who is unauthorized to move beyond that genre. Overall, this article examines authenticity as the rhetorical move by which exclusion is constructed and highlights how assumptions about the relationship between race and performance are key to arguments about artistry.

scholarly journals Effects of Basic Psychological Needs on Resilience: A Human Agency Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Liu ◽  
Xiaoxing Huang
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Academic Resilience ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Agency Model ◽  
The Relationship

Academic resilience refers to the ability to recover and achieve high academic outcomes despite environmental adversity in the academic setting. At the same time, self-determination theory (SDT) offers a human agency model to understand individuals' autonomy to achieve in various fields. The present longitudinal study explored the factors influencing resilience from the analytical framework of SDT to investigate how basic psychological needs strengthen students' resilience. A mediation model was proposed that resilience may mediate the relationship between basic psychological needs and academic performance. The results from 450 10th grade Chinese students showed that three basic psychological needs (i.e., autonomy, competence, and relatedness) facilitate academic resilience; academic resilience thus increases subsequent academic performance after controlling for previous test scores.

scholarly journals Defining the Relationship between Domestic General Anti-Avoidance Rules and Double Tax Agreements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alexandra Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Analytical Problem ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Economic Development Model ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Domestic Law

<p>Double taxation agreements pose a particular analytical problem. While they provide a coherent structure that encourages cross-border investment, the agreements also provide opportunities for taxpayers to avoid their domestic tax obligations. To prevent tax avoidance, some countries enact domestic general anti-avoidance rules to protect their domestic interests. These rules raise questions as to what the relationship between the domestic law and the double tax agreement is. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Committee on Fiscal Affairs provides Commentary on the Organisation for Cooperation and Economic Development Model Double Tax Agreement. This Commentary sets out an analytical framework from which this relationship is to be evaluated. This paper argues that the framework is of little practical significance. The paper concludes that the weight and usefulness of the Commentary lies in a guiding principle set out in the Commentary. Consequently, the wider interpretative approaches do not practically add to the analysis and should be given little weight.</p>

Sustainability engagement’s impact on tourism sector performance: linear and nonlinear models

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amina Buallay ◽  
Jasim Al-Ajmi ◽  
Elisabetta Barone
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Nonlinear Models ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the relationship between the level of sustainability reporting and tourism sector’s performance (operational, financial and market).Design/methodology/approachUsing data culled from 1,375 observations from 37 different countries for ten years (2008–2017), an independent variable derived from the environmental, social and governance (ESG score) is regressed against dependent performance indicator variables (return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE) and Tobin's Q (TQ)). Two types of control variables complete the regression analysis in this study: firm-specific and macroeconomic.FindingsThe findings elicited from the empirical results of the linear models demonstrate that there is a significant relationship between ESG and operational performance (ROA) and market performance (TQ). However, there is no significant relationship between ESG and financial performance (ROE). Furthermore, the results of the nonlinear models suggest that the relationship between sustainability performance and firm's profitability and valuation is nonlinear (inverted U-shape).Originality/valueThe models in this study presents a valuable analytical framework for exploring sustainability reporting as a driver of performance in the tourism sector's economies. In addition, this study highlights the tourism sector's management lacunae manifesting in terms of the weak nexus between each component of ESG and tourism sector's performance.

Managing E-Governance

2013 ◽  
pp. 204-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Misuraca ◽  
Gianluigi Viscusi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Value Drivers ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Governance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Recommendations

This chapter presents and discusses the application of an analytical framework for managing digital innovation initiatives in the public sector. The chapter positions e-Government and digital innovation initiatives in the public sector within the broader framework of e-Governance (i.e. governance aided by ICT). It first introduces the conceptual framework on which the discussion is based, and then proposes a higher order conceptualization of the relationship between e-Governance and its underpinning value drivers of performance, openness and inclusion. In particular, the analysis focuses on the role that these value drivers plays in the enactment of digital governance initiatives such as the ones related to open government and smart cities. To this end, the chapter discusses its application to initiatives carried out in Barcelona and Tallinn. A typology of e-Governance ‘attitudes’ is then identified to provide evidence of further specific interventions required for an appropriate management of similar initiatives in other countries. The chapter concludes by highlighting the policy implications for administrative reform and offering practical recommendations for implementing digital governance initiatives.

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