Importance Rap artists are among the most recognizable celebrities in the US, serving as
role models to an increasingly diverse audience of listeners. Through their lyrics, these …

Music is ubiquitous in our everyday lives, and lyrics play an integral role when we listen to
music. The complex relationships between lyrical content, its temporal evolution over the last …

ABSTRACT US college students' general mental health is rapidly declining, and scholars
have observed significant increases in references to depression, suicide, and mental health …

Das Buch bietet für Einsteiger* innen Erklärungen darüber, wie eine geeignete qualitative
oder quantitative inhaltsanalytische Methode abhängig von a) Forschungsinteresse und b) …

We present SentText, a web-based tool to perform and explore lexicon-based sentiment
analysis on texts, specifically developed for the Digital Humanities (DH) community. The tool …

Music is often used to “soothe the soul,” and one important function of music listening has
been emotion regulation. In comparing consumption trends across cultures, past research …

In contemporary popular music, covering or adapting previous songs signals a tribute or
reworking of popular hits, which implies acknowledgement of the original musicians. This …

Song lyrics can be considered as a text genre that has features of both written and spoken
discourse, and potentially provides extensive linguistic and cultural information to scientists …

Throughout the decades, music has been involved with human emotions and inner
imaginations. Along with the overgrowing demands for the overhead reduction of human …

A limited amount of previous research suggests that deteriorating socioeconomic conditions
may be associated with greater popularity of music lyrics featuring negative emotional …