International who's who in popular music
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Begun as International Who's Who in Music, v.2: Popular Music (1996), this publication provides capsule biographies of 5,000 "pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country" personalities.Most entries also include discographies and contact information.The strength of this work is its worldwide scope, not found elsewhere in print (but not half so broad as All Music Guide http://www.allmusic.com/,CH, Sup'99, currently offering over 62,000 biographies).Exclusions are evident (e.g., Margot Timmins, Jakob Dylan, Massive Attack members, Johnette Napolitano), but coverage is acceptable for a one-volume work.Cross-references are nonexistent, however; band members can be found only under individual members' names.Comparing entries from the first edition and the current often shows little revision; even the usually updated discographies miss current releases.Industry contacts in the appendixes (primarily addresses and names) are useful for their international scope.Encyclopedia of Popular Music, ed. by Colin Larkin (3rd ed., CH, Sep'99), together with All Music Guide, will provide broader scope and currency.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".