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Jennifer C. Lena
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 19
Citations - 786
Jennifer C. Lena is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Popular music & Lyrics. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 18 publications receiving 712 citations. Previous affiliations of Jennifer C. Lena include Vanderbilt University & Barnard College.
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Classification as Culture: Types and Trajectories of Music Genres
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze 60 musics in the United States, delineating between 12 social, organizational, and symbolic attributes, and find four distinct genre types: Avant-garde, Scene-based, Industry-based and Traditionalist.
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Social Context and Musical Content of Rap Music, 1979–1995
TL;DR: The authors found that when independent labels owned most of the charted singles, lyrics emphasized features of the local environment and hostility to corporate music production and values, while the major label dominated market featured lyrics blending street credibility and commercial success in the protagonist.
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Who is an artist? New data for an old question
TL;DR: This article explored the "professional artist" as the outcome of an identity process, rendering it the dependent rather than the independent variable, and found significant correlation between membership in this group and various markers of cultural capital and social integration into artistic communities.
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CREATIVITY NARRATIVES AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: Sociability and Everyday Creativity
TL;DR: This article found that the majority of creativity is associated with everyday experiences and social interactions, in contrast to a popular and scholarly focus on extraordinary individual achievement in domains like art and science, and found strong trends in sociability as students negotiate both "where they stand" with regards to those around them as well as "how they stand out" as individuals.