Measuring Stereotypes in Music: A Commentary on Susino and Schubert (2019)

Anglada-Tort, Manuel

doi:10.18061/emr.v14i1-2.6659

EMR

2019

DOI: 10.18061/emr.v14i1-2.6659

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Measuring Stereotypes in Music: A Commentary on Susino and Schubert (2019)

Manuel Anglada-Tort

Abstract: In this commentary, I first discuss the strengths of the target paper and provide suggestions for future research. I proceed to point out an important limitation of the target study as well as contribute considerations relevant to measuring stereotypes in music. Finally, I present a novel theoretical account to explain music stereotyping, namely, the representativeness heuristic (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974), which I discuss within the broader framework of the behavioral economics of music.

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Musical emotions in the absence of music: A cross-cultural investigation of emotion communication in music by extra-musical cues

Susino

Schubert

2020

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Research in music and emotion has long acknowledged the importance of extra-musical cues, yet has been unable to measure their effect on emotion communication in music. The aim of this research was to understand how extra-musical cues affect emotion responses to music in two distinguishable cultures. Australian and Cuban participants (N = 276) were instructed to name an emotion in response to written lyric excerpts from eight distinct music genres, using genre labels as cues. Lyrics were presented primed with genre labels (original priming and a false, lured genre label) or unprimed. For some genres, emotion responses to the same lyrics changed based on the primed genre label. We explain these results as emotion expectations induced by extra-musical cues. This suggests that prior knowledge elicited by lyrics and music genre labels are able to affect the musical emotion responses that music can communicate, independent of the emotion contribution made by psychoacoustic features. For example, the results show a lyric excerpt that is believed to belong to the Heavy Metal genre triggers high valence/high arousal emotions compared to the same excerpt primed as Japanese Gagaku, without the need of playing any music. The present study provides novel empirical evidence of extra-musical effects on emotion and music, and supports this interpretation from a multi-genre, cross-cultural perspective. Further findings were noted in relation to fandom that also supported the emotion expectation account. Participants with high levels of fandom for a genre reported a wider range of emotions in response to the lyrics labelled as being a song from that same specific genre, compared to lower levels of fandom. Both within and across culture differences were observed, and the importance of a culture effect discussed.

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Musical emotions in the absence of music: A cross-cultural investigation of emotion communication in music by extra-musical cues

Susino

Schubert

2020

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Measuring Stereotypes in Music: A Commentary on Susino and Schubert (2019)

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