Recovering Expert Critic-Sourced Network Adjacency between Musical Artists from Acoustic Distributions: A Construct-Validity Approach
It is argued that a third, largely untapped signal is both richer and more principled: critical adjacency, the pairwise relation established when an expert critic explicitly links two artists in long-form prose, which offers both a scalable cold-start discovery mechanism and a sociological grounded approach to MIR and...