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

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Susino M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7673536 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature