Much of our discussion lately has been about biases of various sorts in MIR tools and how to avoid/fix them. Here’s a paper that touches on many of the topics we’ve been thinking about:
Computational Ethnomusicology
George Tzanetakis, Ajay Kapur, W. Andrew Schloss, Matthew Wright
http://www.karmetik.com/sites/default/files/publications/2007_compEthno_0.pdf
Plus many papers on similar themes at:
http://karmetik.com/publications