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Why do some people like more complex music?
One of the facets of openness to experience is aesthetic appreciation, which is how researchers generally explain the high positive correlation between openness and liking complex music. Sad music has also been theorized to allow for greater experience of aesthetic experiences and beauty.
What is the most complex style of music?
Javanese gamelan and north Indian music got the highest values; Brazilian forro music and electronic techno music both came bottom of the complexity scale with values around 0.8, while Jazz and rock’n’roll sat roughly in between the two extremes.
Why is modern music so repetitive?
That’s because songs don’t just repeat single words. They also repeat lines and line sequences, at different scales, multiple times throughout a few minutes. That added up to about 15,000 total songs. The results found, as Morris expected, that pop music has become more repetitive since 1958.
How has jazz changed over time?
Jazz evolves, remains an artist’s art, continually seeks to challenge audiences, problematizing the happy enjoyment of the many even as it pleases some number of the few. Jazz becomes decreasingly accessible; danceable jazz vanishes (for leading artists, anyway) and discordant, atonal, arhythmic, or otherwise experimental sounds become more common.
Is hip-hop evolving like jazz?
Through the ‘80s, ‘90s, and today, hip-hop evolves too, but not like jazz: Rather than growing more introverted and challenging it goes pop (not all of it, of course; challenging and/or deep hip-hop abounds).
What is the difference between jazz and electronic music?
A final note: New instrumental music is now overwhelmingly electronic, and electronic music is much easier to begin to make than jazz is; among other things, one can make it alone, with a computer, whereas jazz requires years of practice and training and then assembling a group, a space to play, and then trying to play live.
Why do people love going to jazz clubs?
Larger crowds love the entertainment but also love doing what critics and culture leaders love doing; they perceive “going to the jazz club” as a cool, sophisticated thing to do, and love the experience on many levels. For many in the crowd, the political angle is even more important than it was for critics.