/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3460/all en /newsroom/channels/news/human-song-universal-302755 <p>Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data scientists, psychologists, political scientists and linguists, including one from 平特五不中, reached this conclusion after five years of collaboration, bringing together a broad range of skills and tools to the question of whether music is universal.</p> <p><b>Using broad datasets to arrive at deep conclusions about music</b></p> Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:04:31 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 188800 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/bob-dylan-awarded-nobel-prize-literature-263424 <p>The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". (<a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/press.html">NobelPrize.org</a>)</p> Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:09:17 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 26279 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/communicating-emotions-242463 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:30:50 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 22096 at /newsroom