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Shifting Listening Niches: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The term “listening niche” refers to the contexts in which people listen to music including what music they are listening to, with whom, when, where, and with what media. The first experiment investigates undergraduate students’ music listening niches in the initial COVID-19 lockdown period, 4 weeks...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8107223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33981274 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648413 |
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description | The term “listening niche” refers to the contexts in which people listen to music including what music they are listening to, with whom, when, where, and with what media. The first experiment investigates undergraduate students’ music listening niches in the initial COVID-19 lockdown period, 4 weeks immediately after the campus shut down abruptly. The second experiment explores how returning to a hybrid semester, the “new normal,” further affected these listening habits. In both experiments, the participants provided a list of their most frequently listened-to songs during the respective period of time. From these, they identified one song that seemed most associated with this period, their “signature song,” and stated why this song seemed relevant. These reasons were coded on nine underlying themes. Three clusters were found to underlie the themes: (1) emotional responses (2) memory associations, and (3) discovery of new music. We identified songs and reasons for selecting them that represented the three clusters and related these to the lyrical content. Compared to before the pandemic, participants in both experiments report listening more in general and on Spotify, but there were no differences in listening between lockdown and the new normal. Whom they were listening with shifted overtime from family members to significant others and finally to other friends and roommates. These results demonstrate how students listen to and find new music that is meaningful to them during this unprecedented pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-81072232021-05-11 Shifting Listening Niches: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Hurwitz, Emily Rose Krumhansl, Carol Lynne Front Psychol Psychology The term “listening niche” refers to the contexts in which people listen to music including what music they are listening to, with whom, when, where, and with what media. The first experiment investigates undergraduate students’ music listening niches in the initial COVID-19 lockdown period, 4 weeks immediately after the campus shut down abruptly. The second experiment explores how returning to a hybrid semester, the “new normal,” further affected these listening habits. In both experiments, the participants provided a list of their most frequently listened-to songs during the respective period of time. From these, they identified one song that seemed most associated with this period, their “signature song,” and stated why this song seemed relevant. These reasons were coded on nine underlying themes. Three clusters were found to underlie the themes: (1) emotional responses (2) memory associations, and (3) discovery of new music. We identified songs and reasons for selecting them that represented the three clusters and related these to the lyrical content. Compared to before the pandemic, participants in both experiments report listening more in general and on Spotify, but there were no differences in listening between lockdown and the new normal. Whom they were listening with shifted overtime from family members to significant others and finally to other friends and roommates. These results demonstrate how students listen to and find new music that is meaningful to them during this unprecedented pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8107223/ /pubmed/33981274 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648413 Text en Copyright © 2021 Hurwitz and Krumhansl. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Hurwitz, Emily Rose Krumhansl, Carol Lynne Shifting Listening Niches: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Shifting Listening Niches: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Shifting Listening Niches: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Shifting Listening Niches: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Shifting Listening Niches: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Shifting Listening Niches: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | shifting listening niches: effects of the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8107223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33981274 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648413 |
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