Macao's Soundscape: Cluster Analysis of Urban Music

Abstract

Macao Urban Musicology has drawn the attention of experts and scholars in the field of urban music anthropology recently. It can be said that the study of urban musicology in Macao is linked to a thorough review of the underlying literature. To study the subject of urban musicology in Macao more deeply, the study of local music literature is the most basic and critical link. The gradual broadening of the research field on Macao urban music also faces the importance of document resource construction. This paper aims to conduct a cluster analysis of the titles, authors, document publishers, and responsible publishers of the majority of music literature in Macao City. The objective is to uncover the correlations and classification rules among different documents. Therefore, the main content of this study aims to reorganize the relevant literature on Macao urban music in order to provide a convenient and fast search method for future researchers in this field. The conclusion aims to provide relevant data resources for the study of Macao urban music literature resources, summarize them, and enrich the research results in recent years. This will help promote better future development of relevant theoretical research.