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The italian music superdiversity

Geography, emotion and language: one resource to find them, one resource to rule them all

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Globalization can lead to a growing standardization of musical contents. Using a cross-service multi-level dataset we investigate the actual Italian music scene. The investigation highlights the musical Italian superdiversity both individually analyzing the geographical and lexical dimensions and combining them. Using different kinds of features over the geographical dimension leads to two similar, comparable and coherent results, confirming the strong and essential correlation between melodies and lyrics. The profiles identified are markedly distinct one from another with respect to sentiment, lexicon, and melodic features. Through a novel application of a sentiment spreading algorithm and songs’ melodic features, we are able to highlight discriminant characteristics that violate the standard regional political boundaries, reconfiguring them following the actual musical communicative practices.

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  7. The service is now inactive, with the URL resulting in a 404 response.

  8. The two version of the WDYL’s list can be public downloaded from https://www.freewebheaders.com/full-list-of-bad-words-banned-by-google/

  9. Googletrans is a free and unlimited python library that implemented Google Translate API. For more details see http://py-googletrans.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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  12. For example, the dictionary we obtained for Lazio for a selected run with best parameters (the same showed in Fig. 9a) is composed of 11,243 Italian lemmas, each labeled with a polarity score in the range [0,10].

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This work is supported by the European Community’s H2020 Program under the funding scheme “INFRAIA-1-2014-2015: Research Infrastructures” grant agreement, http://www.sobigdata.eu, GS501100001809, 654024 “SoBigData: Social Mining & Big Data Ecosystem”.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Laura Pollacci, Riccardo Guidotti, Giulio Rossetti & Dino Pedreschi

  2. ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Riccardo Guidotti, Giulio Rossetti & Fosca Giannotti

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Pollacci, L., Guidotti, R., Rossetti, G. et al. The italian music superdiversity. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 3297–3319 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6511-6

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