在50年的歌词中,情感表达的文化演变
Charlotte O Brand1, Alberto Acerbi2, Alex Mesoudi1
1Human Behaviour and Cultural Evolution Group, Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.
Evolutionary human sciences
|August 17, 2023
概括
流行音乐显示出一种情绪消极的趋势. 这项研究表明,内容偏见和不偏见的文化传播部分解释了随着时间的推移,负面歌词的兴起.
科学领域:
- 文化演变的文化演变.
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 音乐学 音乐学 音乐学
背景情况:
- 流行音乐歌词表现出长期趋势,增加负面情绪内容,减少积极情绪内容.
- 这一趋势反映了在文学小说等其他文化产品中观察到的模式.
- 了解流行音乐中这种情感转变的驱动因素对于文化进化研究至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查文化传播偏见是否可以解释流行音乐歌词中日益增长的消极性.
- 分析跨越几十年的大量歌词数据集,以确定情感内容的趋势.
- 测试特定偏见,包括内容,声望和成功偏见在歌词情感的背景下.
主要方法:
- 分析了两个大型数据集,其中包括来自4,913首和159,015首流行歌曲的歌词,涵盖了1965-2015年期间.
- 统计建模以评估内容偏见 (歌词固有的吸引力),声望偏见 (艺术家人气) 和成功偏见 (歌曲人气) 对歌词消极性的影响.
- 包括不偏见的文化传播模型来解释过去事件的频率.
主要成果:
- 有证据表明内容偏见,负面歌词在商业上表现更好.
- 声望和成功偏差显示出初始影响,但当考虑无偏差传输 (频率依赖影响) 时,影响会减少.
- 毫无偏见的文化传播,负面的歌词由于过去的频率变得更为普遍,起着重要作用.
结论:
- 流行歌曲歌词中日益增长的消极性很可能是由内容偏见和不偏见的文化传播的结合驱动的.
- 虽然艺术家和歌曲的成功起着作用,但负面主题的固有吸引力和它们日益普遍的存在是关键因素.
- 这一发现有助于通过流行音乐的透视来理解文化进化动态.
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