Metric Ambiguity and Flow in Rap Music: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Outkast's "Mainstream" (1996)

Recent years have seen the rise of musical corpus studies, primarily detailing harmonic tendencies of tonal music. This article extends this scholarship by addressing a new genre (rap music) and a new parameter of focus (rhythm). More specifically, I use corpus methods to investigate the relation be...

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Main Author: Mitchell Ohriner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2017-01-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v11i2.4896