Musicae ScientiaePub Date : 2021-09-19DOI: 10.1177/10298649211028643
M. Pitman, T. Geffen, Philippa Nettleton
{"title":"Psychometric evaluation of the Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale (IMIS) in a South African sample","authors":"M. Pitman, T. Geffen, Philippa Nettleton","doi":"10.1177/10298649211028643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211028643","url":null,"abstract":"Involuntary musical imagery (INMI) is a common variety of musical imagery (MI) that has been a key research interest in the psychology of music over the last ten years. The Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale (IMIS), a closed-ended self-report instrument that offers a standardized means of assessing different aspects of earworm experience, has previously been evaluated psychometrically in at least two predominantly Euro-American samples. This report extends the study of INMI, and of the IMIS in particular, into a multicultural and multilingual African context. Responses to the IMIS from a South African student sample were subjected to factor analysis, reliability analysis, and a series of correlational analyses in order to assess its robustness and suitability for cross-cultural research. Results suggest the IMIS has a robust factor structure, reliability characteristics, and internal intercorrelation patterns when compared to previous findings, even outside a Global North setting. Item and subscale scores generally converged with other indicators of MI and INMI frequency, as well as INMI pleasantness and levels of disturbance. In contrast to the findings of much previous research, IMIS Negative Valence correlated negatively with earworm frequency, section length, and episode length, providing support for the claim that earworms are generally a positive rather than aversive experience. Although IMIS earworm frequency was strongly and positively correlated with INMI frequency, they shared only 36.8% variance – a result consistent with concerns that MI/INMI definitions have considerable impact on self-reports of these phenomena, and specifically that the earworm experience should not be equated with or considered prototypical of INMI experience.","PeriodicalId":47219,"journal":{"name":"Musicae Scientiae","volume":"50 1","pages":"495 - 509"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83190394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicae ScientiaePub Date : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1177/10298649211034547
Jinyu Wang, Ming Xu, Zhi-shuai Jin, Lu Xia, Qiaoping Lian, Sizhu Huyang, Daxing Wu
{"title":"The Chinese version of the Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ): Associations with personality traits and gender","authors":"Jinyu Wang, Ming Xu, Zhi-shuai Jin, Lu Xia, Qiaoping Lian, Sizhu Huyang, Daxing Wu","doi":"10.1177/10298649211034547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211034547","url":null,"abstract":"Sensitivity to music reward varies across individuals. The Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire (BMRQ) is an effective tool in the assessment of sensitivity to music reward. The current study investigated the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the BMRQ, including its internal consistency, factor structure, criterion-related validity, and measurement invariance across gender. In addition, the relationship between personality traits and sensitivity to music reward was explored. A total of 1,120 Chinese undergraduate students completed a pen-and-paper version of the BMRQ, either in individual sessions or in class groups. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a good fit for the revised model of the BMRQ. In addition, good internal consistency reliability of the overall scale and criterion-related validity with the BIS/BAS scale were also supported in this study. Evidence of configural, metric, and scalar invariance supported its measurement invariance across gender. On this basis, women in our sample reported themselves more sensitive than men to music reward. Results also showed that the personality traits Openness to Experience and Agreeableness were the strongest contributors to music reward sensitivity, while Extraversion did not make a significant contribution. These findings may provide a reference point for therapists wishing to predict the efficacy of music therapy for individuals.","PeriodicalId":47219,"journal":{"name":"Musicae Scientiae","volume":" 9","pages":"218 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72382717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicae ScientiaePub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1177/10298649211015793
G. Howell
{"title":"Configurations of hope at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music","authors":"G. Howell","doi":"10.1177/10298649211015793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211015793","url":null,"abstract":"In settings of conflict and hardship, education can be a portal through which future lives are imagined. Experiences of schooling are thus tied closely to the generation of hope and the transformation of young lives. The goal of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a vocational music school in Kabul, is to transform lives through music and education, by restoring music practices, cultural rights, and the country’s relationships with the rest of the world. Hope is central to this multi-faceted project and is cultivated within the school, strategically, as a source of protection and a driver of desired change. Conceptual in scope, this article explores how hope was situated and configured within the learning experience at ANIM and entwined with the school’s transformation goals during the years 2015–2017. Using concepts of hope from critical anthropology and sociology and thematic analysis of interviews with ANIM students and teachers, it presents four configurations of hope at ANIM. It examines how these configurations were produced, nurtured, and distributed through activities, organisational culture, and environmental factors, in varying degrees of intensity and dynamism. In so doing, this article shows hope to be a complex and ambivalent resource for social impact in contexts in which music education, social transformation goals, and international aid converge. Hope produces agencies that can drive transformation, but it is always shaped and conditioned by the complex challenges and power asymmetries of the wider context.","PeriodicalId":47219,"journal":{"name":"Musicae Scientiae","volume":"232 1","pages":"358 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85315247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicae ScientiaePub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1177/10298649211015505
Inês Lamela
{"title":"Fugue for Four Voices: Building narratives through music behind bars","authors":"Inês Lamela","doi":"10.1177/10298649211015505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211015505","url":null,"abstract":"The project On the Wings of a Piano . . . I Learn to Fly was developed with four women in custody inside a Portuguese prison during 2013–2014 over a period of eight months. Weekly individual sessions focused on improvisation, composition, memorization, and learning repertoire. This one-to-one work with participants resulted in the presentation of three distinct public performances in different contexts and for different audiences. Community music principles of decentralization, accessibility and equal opportunity were the foundation of a strong triangular relationship between the participants, the music they played on the piano, and the facilitator. With the narrative of each participant at its core, this article explores different ways in which this project can be identified as community music, despite the emphasis on individual work with each of the participants. The importance of adapting to each participant’s personal needs, requests and skills is highlighted, as well as the value of the affection developed between facilitator and participants. The subjectivity inherent in the involvement of the facilitator as a researcher is discussed, and the pedagogic outcomes of the project are also considered as an important contribution to research on music in prisons.","PeriodicalId":47219,"journal":{"name":"Musicae Scientiae","volume":"9 1","pages":"303 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90602276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicae ScientiaePub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1177/10298649211014235
Áine Mangaoang
{"title":"“A reward rather than a right”: Facilitators’ perspectives on the place of music in Norwegian prison exceptionalism","authors":"Áine Mangaoang","doi":"10.1177/10298649211014235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211014235","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarship on prison music-making projects and programmes to date has largely overlooked the perspectives of prison music facilitators, who form an integral part of many prison music activities. The aim of the study, which was exploratory in nature, was to contribute to a better understanding overall of the relationship between music and imprisonment by focusing on the perspectives of prison music practitioners. Drawing from data collected in four Norwegian prisons through ethnographic research, data was analysed thematically with four key themes emerging: interpersonal communication and emotional connection; social responsibility; prison system and environment, and (in)difference and exclusion. The findings highlight the fact that the range of prison music activities offered in many Norwegian prisons affects music facilitators deeply in a number of ways, and support existing studies that find that prison music practices can contribute to creating a community of caring individuals both inside and outside prisons. Notably, the emergence of the (in)difference and exclusion theme demonstrates a more critical and nuanced view of prison music facilitators’ experiences as going beyond simplistic, romantic notions of music’s function in social transformation. Concerns raised for those who appear to be excluded or differentiated from music-making opportunities in prison – in particular foreign nationals and women – suggest that (even) in the Norwegian context, music in prisons remains a “reward” rather than a fundamental “right.” This study marks a step towards a richer and more critical understanding of prison musicking and aims to inform future research, practice, and the processes involved in the possibilities for offering music in prisons.","PeriodicalId":47219,"journal":{"name":"Musicae Scientiae","volume":"14 1","pages":"274 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78926479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicae ScientiaePub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1177/10298649211018533
B. Bartleet, Lukas Pairon
{"title":"The social impact of music making","authors":"B. Bartleet, Lukas Pairon","doi":"10.1177/10298649211018533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211018533","url":null,"abstract":"This Special Issue of Musicae Scientiae focuses on the growing field of music projects that seek to have a positive social impact. Research in this field is gaining significant momentum as musicians across the world are increasingly working on initiatives that feature a strong social dimension (see Sloboda et al., 2020). For example, these musicians are using participatory approaches to music making that facilitate conflict resolution, explore issues of racism, empower women’s human rights and build resiliency in youth (see Hesser & Bartleet, 2020). This burgeoning field of socially engaged practices encompasses projects of international reach, outreach programmes of arts organizations and local grass roots initiatives (see Bartleet & Howell, 2021). Despite the increasing numbers of musicians working in this realm, there are still major gaps in our understanding as to how and when music can operate as a mechanism of social impact. While the field is growing, more systematic research that brings together practitioners, scholars and participants is needed to keep up with the expansion of programs and practices worldwide. This Special Issue seeks to make important empirical and methodological contributions to this field by featuring articles that showcase emerging key contexts, practices, research approaches, findings and dimensions of social impact. It features six articles from scholars who have presented at meetings of the international research platform Social Impact of Music Making (SIMM) (www.simm-platform.eu). This international SIMM platform was developed in 2017 by a group of academics and practitioners from seven different countries, in order to develop and recognize this new multi-disciplinary field of research. The specific aim of the organization is to support critical research on the potential role that learning and making music can play in social and community work. SIMM is grateful to Musicae Scientiae for publishing this Special Issue. For a comparatively young field such as ours, perhaps not quite yet ready for its own journal, we have relied on the open arms of Musicae Scientiae, with its broader remit, being willing to embrace this work that falls somewhat outside the journal’s normal focus. This Special Issue presents research on social music practices that are occurring across a wide range of contexts, such as detention centres, traditional music festivals, culturally diverse communities, cities affected by war and impoverished and violence-stricken urban neighbourhoods. Most of the authors are active themselves as practitioners, offering a distinctive view of the intentions, creative processes and outcomes of these practices in concrete terms, as well as unique perspectives from those participating in these social music programmes themselves. The articles in this Special Issue illuminate the wide range of methodological possibilities that can be 1015465 MCS0010.1177/01634437211015465Media, Culture & SocietyEditorialeditorial20","PeriodicalId":47219,"journal":{"name":"Musicae Scientiae","volume":"50 1","pages":"271 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81462719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicae ScientiaePub Date : 2021-08-28DOI: 10.1177/10298649211033973
P. Cross, Andrew Goldman
{"title":"Interval patterns are dependent on metrical position in jazz solos","authors":"P. Cross, Andrew Goldman","doi":"10.1177/10298649211033973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211033973","url":null,"abstract":"During jazz improvisation, performers employ short recurrent musical motifs called licks. Past research has focused on the pitch, intervallic, and rhythmic characteristics of licks, but less attention has been paid to whether they tend to start in the same place within the measure (metrical dependence). Licks might be metrically dependent, and where a given lick starts in a measure (metrical position) may thus be part of the performer’s mental representation of that lick. Here we report the use of a corpus study to investigate whether licks are metrically dependent. We analyzed a subset of solos, all those in 4/4 time (n = 435), from the Weimar Jazz Database (WJD; Pfleiderer et al., 2017). Using a sliding window technique, we identified melodic sequences (interval n-grams) between 3 and 10 intervals in length. We counted the number of times each interval n-gram occurred, and noted the metrical position of the initial note of each occurrence, using different levels of quantization (8th and 16th note). We compared the entropy of the distribution of metrical positions for each n-gram—with lower values indicating a stronger metrical dependence—against simulated counterparts that assumed no relationship between an n-gram and its metrical position (no metrical dependence). Overall, we found that shorter n-grams were metrically dependent, with varying results for longer n-grams. We suggest two possible explanations: either mental representations of licks may encode their metrical features or the metrical position may make certain licks more accessible to the performer. On the basis of our findings we discuss future studies that could employ our methods.","PeriodicalId":47219,"journal":{"name":"Musicae Scientiae","volume":"15 1","pages":"299 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75643726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicae ScientiaePub Date : 2021-08-21DOI: 10.1177/10298649211030318
A. Krause, W. Scott, Sarah Flynn, Beatrice Foong, Kitye Goh, Stephanie Wake, Dan J. Miller, D. Garvey
{"title":"Listening to music to cope with everyday stressors","authors":"A. Krause, W. Scott, Sarah Flynn, Beatrice Foong, Kitye Goh, Stephanie Wake, Dan J. Miller, D. Garvey","doi":"10.1177/10298649211030318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211030318","url":null,"abstract":"Everyday stressors—the irritating and disturbing events that happen in the context of everyday life—are common. The present research examined the relationship between everyday stressors and the use of music listening as a coping mechanism. In particular, it examined the use of music listening to cope with different types of everyday stressor and examined the relationship between this usage and listener characteristics, including demographics and music engagement style. Participants in the USA, Australia, and Malaysia (N =553) completed an online survey. A factor analysis was used to identify five types of everyday stressor: Social, Financial, Performance Responsibilities, Work-related, and Daily Displeasures. Individuals listened to music significantly more often to cope with social and work-related stressors than performance responsibilities and daily displeasures. Moreover, individuals who demonstrated a stronger affective listening style and those who reported listening to music for emotion/problem-orientated and avoidance/disengagement reasons were found to listen to music most often to cope with everyday stressors. These findings have implications, for both listeners and health professionals, when considering how music listening can be used as a self-administered tool for coping with everyday stressors.","PeriodicalId":47219,"journal":{"name":"Musicae Scientiae","volume":"34 1","pages":"176 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74523533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicae ScientiaePub Date : 2021-08-13DOI: 10.1177/10298649211030314
Michael J. Silverman, Sonia Bourdaghs, Jessica M. Abbazio, Amy Riegelman
{"title":"A systematic review of music-induced substance craving","authors":"Michael J. Silverman, Sonia Bourdaghs, Jessica M. Abbazio, Amy Riegelman","doi":"10.1177/10298649211030314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211030314","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Conditioning- and cue-induced craving theories indicate that music has the potential to induce substance craving. A better understanding of this phenomenon could enhance treatment and prevent misuse, relapse, and overdose. Objective: The purpose of this systematic review was to locate and examine studies using music to induce substance craving in humans. We sought to discover if music can induce substance craving as well as specific aspects of the music and how it was used. Method: Adhering to the PRISMA Statement and Checklist, we conducted a systematic review of literature on music-induced substance craving in nine databases. We extracted data from studies meeting our inclusion criteria, which related to substance craving induced by music and data based on music intervention reporting guidelines. Results: We reviewed 751 research outputs. A total of 33 articles meeting the inclusion criteria were found, indicating that various types of music can induce alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, and general substance craving. In most of the studies, music was used as a component of a mood induction technique or in a virtual reality setting that led to craving. There tended to be a lack of detail about the music itself and most authors did not adhere to music intervention reporting guidelines. In the majority of studies, the researchers selected the music to induce negative mood states so as to elicit craving. Conclusion: Music has the potential to induce substance craving. While the music used in studies varied considerably and tended to be well controlled from a research design perspective, the music was not based on the music psychology literature, and authors did not adequately report essential aspects of the music. Implications for clinical practice, limitations, and suggestions for future research are provided.","PeriodicalId":47219,"journal":{"name":"Musicae Scientiae","volume":"115 1","pages":"137 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80136913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Musicae ScientiaePub Date : 2021-07-23DOI: 10.1177/10298649211013409
Jiancheng Hou, Chuansheng Chen, Q. Dong, V. Prabhakaran, V. Nair
{"title":"Superior pitch identification ability is associated with better mental rotation performance","authors":"Jiancheng Hou, Chuansheng Chen, Q. Dong, V. Prabhakaran, V. Nair","doi":"10.1177/10298649211013409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211013409","url":null,"abstract":"Musicians with absolute pitch ability show better spatial ability, but little is known about whether non-musicians’ pitch identification (PI) ability is associated with their spatial ability. In the present study, a PI test, two mental rotation (MR) tests (Three-Dimensional Mental Rotation [3DMR] and Spatial Relationship [SR]), and eight executive function (EF) tests were administered to a large sample (N = 525) of Chinese college students who were non-music majors. A subsample with superior PI ability (n = 42) was identified and compared with a sample with average PI ability matched in age and IQ (n = 42). Two-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) (PI ability x musical training, with gender as a covariate due to a minor difference in matching by gender) revealed that superior PI ability was associated with better performance on MR and various EF tests. Musical training was associated with performance on select visual and EF tests (i.e., visual perception, working memory, and executive attention control), but not with MR performance. Additional ANCOVA showed that PI ability was significantly associated with 3DMR, but not SR, even after scores on EF tests were included as covariates. These results indicate a unique association between PI ability and 3DMR, which helps shed light on the cognitive mechanisms related to PI ability.","PeriodicalId":47219,"journal":{"name":"Musicae Scientiae","volume":"40 1","pages":"117 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80158523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}