The influence of musical parameters and subjective musical ratings on perceptions of culture.

ABSTRACT: Recent research suggests that music can affect evaluations of other groups and cultures. However, little is known about the objective and subjective musical parameters that influence these evaluations. We aimed to fill this gap through two studies. Study 1 collected responses from 52 American participants who listened to 30 folk-song melodies from different parts of the world. Linear mixed-effects models tested the influence of objective and subjective musical parameters of these melodies on evaluations of the cultures from which they originated. Musical parameters consistently predicted cultural evaluations. The most prominent musical parameter was musical velocity, a measure of number of pitch onsets, predicting more cultural warmth, competence and evolvedness and less cultural threat. N

SUBMITTER: Treider JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10673861 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature