Music 2025 : The Music Data Dilemma: issues facing the music industry in improving data management

© Crown Copyright 2019Music 2025ʼ investigates the infrastructure issues around the management of digital data in an increasingly stream driven industry. The findings are the culmination of over 50 interviews with high profile music industry representatives across the sector and reflects key issues as well as areas of consensus and contrasting views. The findings reveal whilst there are great examples of data initiatives across the value chain, there are opportunities to improve efficiency and interoperability

Representation Theory of Diagram Algebras: Subalgebras and Generalisations of the Partition Algebra

This thesis concerns the representation theory of diagram algebras and related problems. In particular, we consider subalgebras and generalisations of the partition algebra. We study the d-tonal partition algebra and the planar d-tonal partition algebra. Regarding the d-tonal partition algebra, a complete description of the J -classes of the underlying monoid of this algebra is obtained. Furthermore, the structure of the poset of J -classes of the d-tonal partition monoid is also studied and numerous combinatorial results are presented. We observe a connection between canonical elements of the d-tonal partition monoids and some combinatorial objects which describe certain types of hydrocarbons, by using the alcove system of some reflection groups. We show that the planar d-tonal partition algebra is quasi-hereditary and generically semisimple. The standard modules of the planar d-tonal partition algebra are explicitly constructed, and the restriction rules for the standard modules are also given. The planar 2-tonal partition algebra is closely related to the two coloured Fuss-Catalan algebra. We use this relation to transfer information from one side to the other. For example, we obtain a presentation of the 2-tonal partition algebra by generators and relations. Furthermore, we present a necessary and sufficient condition for semisimplicity of the two colour Fuss-Catalan algebra, under certain known restrictions

Shaping the Present through the Future: Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Contemporaneity

The collection of papers before us is the direct result of the third conference in the Young Musicology franchise, this time held in Belgrade, 24–26. September 2020, with the title Shaping the Present by the Future: Ethno/Musicology and Contemporaneity. This collection of papers consists of 14 selected studies, which are based on the conference presentations, but also further expanded and enhanced in collaboration with the reviewers and editors.The publication of this edited collection was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia

Two Sides to a Drum: Duality in Trinidad Orisha Music and Culture

This dissertation presents an ethnographic and historical study of music and culture in the Yoruba-derived Trinidad Orisha religion in Trinidad and New York City. Its objectives are: (1) to provide description and documentation of Trinidad Orisha music, an understudied music genre in the African diaspora; (2) to shed light on the historical, cultural, and demographic factors contributing to the development of Trinidad Orisha music by its practitioners; and (3) to provide substance for meaningful comparisons between Trinidad Orisha music and other Yoruba-derived musics. Based on four years of fieldwork (2008-2012) in Trinidad and in Brooklyn, NY, the study explores Trinidad Orisha as a neo-African musical and religious practice at a crossroads of often oppositional transnational and postcolonial forces. The history of the religion includes criminalization, ridicule, and recent valorization as part of a middle class revival, and is emblematic of larger social and political transformations that have occurred since Trinidad\u27s independence and the development of New York as an essential locale within the Trinidadian diaspora. The analysis is based on data gathered from field recordings of Trinidad Orisha ceremonies; formal interviews and informal conversations with Trinidad Orisha musicians, priests and others; and the author\u27s own observations made while drumming during Trinidad Orisha rituals, including subjective insights into his experiences of the music, as both performer and listener. Musical performance is the main context for the practice of the Trinidad Orisha religion, and so the dissertation privileges music, and the experiences of musicians, as a central means of understanding the religion\u27s history and present. The thesis of the dissertation invokes the physicality of a Trinidad Orisha drum - double-sided and thus approachable from more than one angle - as a metaphor for a basic duality in a complex cultural practice that is simultaneously Yoruba and Trinidadian. The conception of duality in Trinidad Orisha music and culture also refers to the push and pull between preservation and innovation; marginalization and revivalism; diaspora and homeland. The dialogue between these various forces is at the heart of understanding Trinidad Orisha music and its contextualization among musics of the African diaspora