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Month: September 2020

Cover Story of this month’s Significance magazine

29th September 2020 / Andrew Gustar / Leave a comment

I’m delighted to have my article about power laws and musical fame and obscurity featured on the cover of this month’s Significance magazine.

It has been a pleasure to work with the editor Brian Tarran to get the article ready for publication. It is a condensed version of my longer paper Fame, Obscurity and Power Laws in Music History, published a couple of months ago.

Eighteenth Century London Concerts: 3 – Concert Venues

10th September 2020 / Andrew Gustar / Leave a comment
Hanover Square Rooms

The first article in this series looked at how to get the data on Eighteenth Century London Concerts into a more usable form, and the second geocoded the locations and classified the venues by type. In this third article, we will start the analysis of the data by looking in more detail at the distribution of concert venues.

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