Are Expressions for Music Emotions the Same Across Cultures?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08744v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:35:15 GMT
• Title: Are Expressions for Music Emotions the Same Across Cultures?
• Authors: Elif Celen, Pol van Rijn, Harin Lee, Nori Jacoby,
• Abstract summary: Key challenge in cross-cultural research on music emotion is biased selection and manual curation.<n>We propose a balanced experimental design with nine online experiments in Brazil, the US, and South Korea, involving N=672 participants.<n>Results show consistency in high arousal, high universality emotions but greater variability in others.
• Score: 12.481680637841045
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Music evokes profound emotions, yet the universality of emotional descriptors across languages remains debated. A key challenge in cross-cultural research on music emotion is biased stimulus selection and manual curation of taxonomies, predominantly relying on Western music and languages. To address this, we propose a balanced experimental design with nine online experiments in Brazil, the US, and South Korea, involving N=672 participants. First, we sample a balanced set of popular music from these countries. Using an open-ended tagging pipeline, we then gather emotion terms to create culture-specific taxonomies. Finally, using these bottom-up taxonomies, participants rate emotions of each song. This allows us to map emotional similarities within and across cultures. Results show consistency in high arousal, high valence emotions but greater variability in others. Notably, machine translations were often inadequate to capture music-specific meanings. These findings together highlight the need for a domain-sensitive, open-ended, bottom-up emotion elicitation approach to reduce cultural biases in emotion research.

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