/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 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University, 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