Our Guide To The Exuberant Nonsense of College Fight Songs

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fight_songs

Format

A data frame with 65 rows representing college fight songs, and 23 variables:

school: school name
conference: school college football conference
song_name: song title
writers: song author(s)
year: year the song was written; some years are unknown
student_writer: TRUE if song was written by a student, FALSE if not
official_song: TRUE if song is an official fight song according to the university, FALSE if not
contest: TRUE if song was chosen as part of a contest, FALSE if not
bpm: beats per minute
sec_duration: duration of the song in seconds
fight: TRUE if song says 'fight', FALSE if not
num_fights: number of time song says 'fight'
victory: TRUE if song says 'victory', FALSE if not
win_won: TRUE if song says 'win' or 'won', FALSE if not
victory_win_won: TRUE if song says 'victory', 'win', or 'won'
rah: TRUE if song says 'rah', FALSE if not
nonsense: TRUE if song uses nonsense syllables, FALSE if not
colors: TRUE if song mentions school colors, FALSE if not
men: TRUE if song refers to a group of men, boys, sons, etc., FALSE if not
opponents: TRUE if song mentions opponents, FALSE if not
spelling: TRUE if song spells something out, FALSE if not
trope_count: total number of tropes in song
spotify_id: Spotify id for song