@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {7122},
      author = {Silver, Daniel and Lee, Monica and Childress, C. Clayton},
      title = {Genre Complexes in Popular Music},
      journal = {PLOS ONE},
      address = {2016-05-20},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Recent work in the sociology of music suggests a declining  importance of genre categories. Yet other work in this  research stream and in the sociology of classification  argues for the continued prevalence of genres as a  meaningful tool through which creators, critics and  consumers focus their attention in the topology of  available works. Building from work in the study of  categories and categorization we examine how boundary  strength and internal differentiation structure the genre  pairings of some 3 million musicians and groups. Using a  range of network-based and statistical techniques, we  uncover three musical “complexes,” which are collectively  constituted by 16 smaller genre communities. Our analysis  shows that the musical universe is not monolithically  organized but rather composed of multiple worlds that are  differently structured—i.e., uncentered, single-centered,  and multi-centered.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/7122},
}