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Bonus
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extended play (EP)single (SP)music industrybonus tracksmusic albumpopular music studiesdescription
The article is devoted to songs and instrumentals which are referred to as bonus tracks in the area of music albums, extended plays and singles. The fi rst part concerns the lexeme bonus as a language unit of Polish, its description in dictionaries and its role in the texts about musical releases. The next part describes reasons and consequences of adding bonus tracks to albums, EPs and singles. The author proposes the preliminary typology of bonus tracks and shows a way of describing them in musical releases. In the last part the author proves that researchers of popular music can benefi t from the fact that bonus tracks are added to albums.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 |