What the music said: narrative listening across cultures
What the music said: narrative listening across cultures
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DOI：
10.1057/s41599-019-0363-1
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发表时间：
2019-11-26
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4
通讯作者：
McAuley, J. Devin
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作者：
Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth;Wong, Patrick C. M.;McAuley, J. Devin
器乐似乎可以在不使用语言的情况下讲述引人入胜的故事，但尚不清楚是什么导致了这种叙事。尽管过去的工作研究了对抽象移动形状的叙事反应，但很少有工作研究对非语言声音的叙事感知的出现。我们使用专门为本项目开发的叙事参与度（NE）量表，测量了美国和中国农村地区的参与者对无词西方和中国音乐的叙事反应。尽管媒体接触、音乐习惯和叙事传统存在巨大差异，但许多参与者都采用了叙事聆听，并且这两个群体都享受到了乐趣。然而，引发这种反应的摘录是针对特定文化的。我们证明，无言的声音能够在文化接触模式截然不同的两组听众中触发感知叙事，从而强化了这样的观念：叙事本身是一种容易获得的音乐体验模式。然而，触发叙事化的特定声音依赖于文化适应过程，正如文化内部的一致性所证明的那样，但导致叙事参与的特定摘录中的文化间差异就证明了这一点。叙事可以以多种形式出现，包括无言的声音，但特定于个体文化的关联模式关键性地塑造了明显抽象的声音模式如何对人们获得深刻的意义和意义。
Instrumental music can seem to tell engrossing stories without the use of words, but it is unclear what leads to this narrativization. Although past work has investigated narrative responses to abstract moving shapes, very little work has studied the emergence of narrative perceptions in response to nonlinguistic sound. We measured narrative responses to wordless Western and Chinese music in participants in the US and in a cluster of villages in a rural part of China using a Narrative Engagement (NE) scale developed specifically for this project. Despite profound differences in media exposure, musical habits, and narrative traditions, narrative listening was employed by many participants and associated with enjoyment in both groups; however, the excerpts that unleashed this response were culture-specific. We show that wordless sound is capable of triggering perceived narratives in two groups of listeners with highly distinct patterns of cultural exposure, reinforcing the notion that narrativization itself is a readily available mode of experiencing music. The particular sounds that trigger narrativization, however, rely on enculturation processes, as demonstrated by the within-culture consistency, but between-culture divergence in the specific excerpts that led to narrative engagement. Narratives can emerge in multiple modalities, including wordless sound, but association patterns specific to individual cultures critically shape how apparently abstract sound patterns come to acquire deep meaning and significance to people.