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"Supports comparison of musical organisation beyond a general impression of heaviness." }, { "name": "Guitar configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented tuning, string count and register; unknown where unverified", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes verified instrumental choices from low-register effects produced by other means." }, { "name": "Vocal approach", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Rapped | spoken | melodic | shouted | screamed | mixed; annotated by section", "why_it_matters": "Captures variation within songs without making one vocal technique compulsory." }, { "name": "Electronic and sampled sound role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Absent | textural | rhythmic | structural | foregrounded | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes incidental effects from sounds that organise the arrangement." }, { "name": "Pulse and rhythmic feel", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "BPM with section, beat interpretation and half-time or 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"Track changes in genre affiliation across an artist's releases or periods.", "Build a discovery set from evidenced associations while distinguishing influences and adjacent genres.", "Identify missing evidence and route uncertain cases for listening or source review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "genre-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Genre identity and boundaries", "description": "Defines the nu metal concept and controls how its label is applied.", "rationale": "A recognisable musical label can still have contested limits and inconsistent application.", "layers": [ { "id": "definitions-and-naming", "name": "Definitions and naming", "description": "Collects attributed meanings and usages of the genre name.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-genre-definition", "name": "Attributed genre definition", "description": "Record definitions as source-dependent interpretations, identifying which musical and cultural criteria each uses.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the consulted source define nu metal, and which criteria does it treat as necessary or merely common?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-genre-definition-q01" }, { "text": "Who uses this definition, when, and in what critical, commercial or community context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-genre-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adjacent-genres-and-targets", "name": "Adjacent genres and classification targets", "description": "Separates neighbouring labels and limits each attribution to its supported target.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-membership", "name": "Bounded membership", "description": "Record why nu metal is applied to a particular target and whether alternative metal, rap metal, industrial metal or metalcore also describes it.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports nu metal specifically rather than only a broader or adjacent label?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence classify a track, a release, a particular artist period or an entire catalogue?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-membership-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "riffs-groove-and-low-register", "name": "Riffs, groove and low register", "description": "Examines how instrumental parts create weight, motion and rhythmic identity.", "rationale": "Genre assessment needs observable relationships among parts rather than equipment stereotypes.", "layers": [ { "id": "riff-construction", "name": "Riff construction", "description": "Describes guitar figures, register and their relationship to bass.", "findings": [ { "id": "riff-and-register-evidence", "name": "Riff and register evidence", "description": "Annotate recurring figures, rests, accents and bass relationships while separating audible results from documented instrument setup.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which passages demonstrate the riff's repetition, register, accent placement and relationship to the bass line?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "riff-and-register-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What verifies the guitar tuning or string configuration rather than inferring it from perceived heaviness?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "riff-and-register-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rhythm-section-coordination", "name": "Rhythm section coordination", "description": "Examines the interaction of drums, bass and guitar across a song.", "findings": [ { "id": "groove-organisation", "name": "Groove organisation", "description": "Record pulse, syncopation, rhythmic unison and contrasting section feels without assigning a compulsory nu metal rhythm.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do kick, snare, bass and guitar accents align or oppose one another in representative sections?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "groove-organisation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the groove evidence help distinguish this recording from adjacent metal styles, or is it shared too widely to decide classification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "groove-organisation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "voice-arrangement-and-production", "name": "Voice, arrangement and production", "description": "Examines vocal combinations, electronic elements and contrasts within recordings.", "rationale": "Nu metal recognition must accommodate varied vocal and production approaches without reducing the genre to rap over distorted guitar.", "layers": [ { "id": "vocal-delivery-and-contrast", "name": "Vocal delivery and contrast", "description": "Records vocal techniques and their placement within the arrangement.", "findings": [ { "id": "section-level-vocal-profile", "name": "Section-level vocal profile", "description": "Describe how rapped, spoken, melodic and harsh deliveries interact with instrumental sections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which vocal approaches occur in each section, and how do their rhythms relate to the riff or beat?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "section-level-vocal-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Would the classification remain supported without the rapped or 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"scenes-lineage-and-reception", "name": "Scenes, lineage and reception", "description": "Places genre usage within documented musical networks and changing reception.", "rationale": "Musical resemblance alone cannot establish influence, scene membership or the historical meaning of a label.", "layers": [ { "id": "documented-musical-connections", "name": "Documented musical connections", "description": "Distinguishes influence claims from shared sounds and institutional proximity.", "findings": [ { "id": "influence-and-scene-evidence", "name": "Influence and scene evidence", "description": "Link claimed influences and scene relationships to testimony or documented activity while keeping them separate from genre membership.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which claimed connections to metal, hip-hop, funk or electronic music are documented by participants or credible research?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "influence-and-scene-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does a shared tour, label or collaboration establish only proximity, or is there separate evidence for nu metal classification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "influence-and-scene-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "label-reception-over-time", "name": "Label reception over time", "description": "Tracks adoption, rejection and retrospective use of nu metal terminology.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-genre-attribution", "name": "Situated genre attribution", "description": "Preserve differences between artist self-description, contemporary reception and later accounts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did participants adopt, reject or avoid the nu metal label, and what dated evidence records their position?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-genre-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Is a later classification or revival claim being projected onto an earlier release without contemporary support?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-genre-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-evidence-and-use", "name": "Classification evidence and use", "description": "Turns listening observations and source attributions into reviewable agent decisions.", "rationale": "An agent needs to explain genre judgements, preserve disagreement and avoid extending a label beyond its evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "evidence-and-disagreement", "name": "Evidence and disagreement", "description": "Connects claims to exact sources and recording passages.", "findings": [ { "id": "reviewable-classification", "name": "Reviewable classification", "description": "Separate quoted attribution, listening observation and agent inference, retaining contrary evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source passages and recording timestamps support the classification, and which statements are the agent's own inference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reviewable-classification-q01" }, { "text": "What disagreement or missing evidence requires the classification to remain proposed or disputed?", "kind": "action", "id": 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"evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of nu metal this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Classifying recordings, performers and scenes in music journalism, catalogues and scholarship.", "Organising playlists, radio programming and music recommendations.", "Describing musical influences and audience expectations for performances and releases." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of nu metal this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a nu metal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a nu metal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a nu metal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a nu metal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a nu metal sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a nu metal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a nu metal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a nu metal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a nu metal from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a nu metal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a nu metal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a nu metal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a nu metal passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a nu metal between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a nu metal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a nu metal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a nu metal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a nu metal, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a nu metal is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a nu metal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a nu metal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a nu metal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a nu metal says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a nu metal contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a nu metal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a nu metal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a nu metal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a nu metal and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a nu metal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a nu metal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a nu metal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of nu metal a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For nu metal, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of nu metal exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made nu metal and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to nu metal, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in nu metal, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a nu metal came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a nu metal and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a nu metal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a nu metal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a nu metal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a nu metal is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a nu metal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a nu metal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a nu metal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }