Why is Music So Ideological, and Why Do Totalitarian States Take It So Seriously? A Personal View from History and the Social Sciences

Keller, Marcello Sorce

doi:10.1080/01411890701361086

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“…Of course, the observed language differences may also stem from the ideology of music. Sorce Keller (2007) argues that the narrative content of music inevitably carries ideology, and these underlying ideologies can elicit responses from people and achieve a certain purpose by shaping and conveying the ideology. Therefore, there may be differences in the words used to describe musical emotions under different ideologies.…”

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How have music emotions been described in Google books? Historical trends and corpus differences

Jiang

et al. 2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Human records can assist us in understanding real descriptions and expected ideals of music. The present work examined how have music emotions been described in millions of Google books. In general, positive adjectives were more regularly used to describe music than negative adjectives, demonstrating a positivity bias in music. The emotional depiction of music has shifted over time, including a decrease in the frequency of emotional adjectives used in English books over the past two centuries, and a sudden surge in the usage of positive adjectives in simplified Chinese books during China’s Cultural Revolution. Negative adjectives were substantially less employed to describe music in simplified Chinese books than in English books, reflecting cultural differences. Finally, a comparison of different corpora showed that emotion-related adjectives were more frequently used to describe music in fictional literature.

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confidence: 99%