Greenberg also believes that the findings could improve music streaming services and support wellbeing apps but this is not as easy as it might sound. In fact, he recently gave a TEDx talk expanding on the ways that music can bond people and cultures. Greenberg, who lives in Jerusalem, already employs music as a bridge to work with Israelis and Palestinians. Today, people are using music as a way to signal their personality and so, the study argues, there is potential to use music to address social division. ‘ Contemporary’ (rhythmic, upbeat, and electronic attributes as heard in the rap, electronica, Latin, and Euro-pop genres)įor thousands of years, humans have broadcast sounds to other groups to establish whether they have similar values, whether they could share resources or whether they are about to fight.‘ Intense’ (distorted, loud, and aggressive attributes as heard in classic rock, punk, heavy metal, and power pop genres).‘ Sophisticated’ (inspiring, complex, and dynamic features as heard in classical, operatic, avant-garde, and traditional jazz genres).‘ Unpretentious’ (uncomplicated, relaxing, and unaggressive attributes as heard in country genres).‘ Mellow’ (featuring romantic, slow, and quiet attributes as heard in soft rock, R&B, and adult contemporary genres).The researchers used the MUSIC model, a widely accepted framework for conceptualizing musical preferences, which identifies five key musical styles: The researchers focused on Western music primarily because it is the most listened to globally and results based on Western music offer the strongest potential to be applied in real-world and therapeutic settings globally. The second used a more advanced approach and asked participants to listen to short audio clips from 16 genres and subgenres of Western music on the musicaluniverse.io website and then give their preferential reactions to each. ![]() ![]() The first required people to self-report the extent to which they liked listening to 23 genres of music as well as completing the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) and providing demographic information. Greenberg and his colleagues used two different musical preference assessment methods to assess an unprecedented number of participants living in more than 50 countries. Dr Greenberg playing saxophone in 2020 with Rachel Ravitz (vocals) and Mattisyahu Brown (vocals, percussion).
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