Evolution of Popular Music — Armand Leroi / Serious Science

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the reconstruction of the history of music, revolutions in music and the importance of hip-hop. Read the full text on our website: “We began to study pop and decided to study the Billboard Hot 100, from the 1960s to 2010. We downloaded the songs and turned them into numbers. So we began to tell the history of pop through numbers.“ Armand Leroi, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial College