Genre, culture, and affect : music cognition through the lens of computational psychology
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Music's isolation from the kinds of survival pressures common in typical natural selection narratives, the social and cultural capital musical preferences confer, and the apparent ubiquity of music across human cultures throughout history make it a potential tool for modeling the structure and development of human society more broadly. Investigating the provenance of musical functionality in both psychological and sociological domains may offer crucial insights into the imperatives common across human cultures. This dissertation aims to start this ambitious project by focusing on the relationship among musical genre, cultural psychology, and computational models of prediction and affect. First, I propose a culture-cognition mediator model of musical functionality, situating music as a crucial link in the mutually constitutive cycle of cultures and selves, and discuss the implications of this model on transdisciplinary music scholarship and the epistemology of musical function. I then discuss experimental and conceptual instantiations of this model in three domains of musical functionality and perception: syncopation, emotion, and genre. These implementations draw on Bayesian probabilistic modeling; theories of affect valuation and mood regulation; and differential topology and computational models of perceptual classification, respectively.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Fram, Noah Roy |
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| Degree supervisor | Berger, Jonathan, 1954- |
| Thesis advisor | Berger, Jonathan, 1954- |
| Thesis advisor | Fujioka, Takako |
| Thesis advisor | Kronengold, Charles (Charles Stewart) |
| Thesis advisor | Tsai, Jeanne Ling |
| Degree committee member | Fujioka, Takako |
| Degree committee member | Kronengold, Charles (Charles Stewart) |
| Degree committee member | Tsai, Jeanne Ling |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Music |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Noah Roy Fram. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Music. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/bj195dk4667 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Noah Roy Fram
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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