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Brown, Sally, Aplin, Karen L., Jenkins, Katie 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6740-5139, Mander, Sarah, Walsh, Claire and Williams, Paul D.
(2015)
Is there a Rhythm Of The Rain? An analysis of weather in popular music.
Weather, 70 (7).
pp. 198-204.
ISSN 0043-1656
Abstract
Weather is frequently used in music to frame events and emotions, yet quantitative analyses are rare. From a collated base set of 759 weather-related songs, 419 were analysed based on listings from a karaoke database. This article analyses the 20 weather types described, frequency of occurrence, genre, keys, mimicry, lyrics and songwriters. Vocals were the principal means of communicating weather: sunshine was the most common, followed by rain, with weather depictions linked to the emotions of the song. Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the most weather-related songs, partly following their experiences at the time of writing.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | University of East Anglia > Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 29 May 2021 00:13 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2022 02:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80168 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/wea.2464 |
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