5 papers
Measuring Cross-Cultural Style Diffusion Through Era Classification: US and Korean Popular Music
Dasol Lee, Minhee Lee, Seonguk Ju +3
Popular music circulates globally while being locally reinterpreted, yet this process of cross-cultural style diffusion has rarely been quantified. We propose an era-classification…
Do Melody and Rhythm Coevolve?
Harin Lee, Rainer Polak, Manuel Anglada-Tort +3
Music comprises two core structural components, melody and rhythm, that vary widely across cultures. Whether these components coevolve in a coupled way or follow independent trajec…
GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition
Harin Lee, Elif Ãelen, Peter Harrison +5
Human annotations of mood in music are essential for music generation and recommender systems. However, existing datasets predominantly focus on Western songs with terms derived fr…
Visual and Auditory Aesthetic Preferences Across Cultures
Harin Lee, Eline Van Geert, Elif Celen +4
Research on how humans perceive aesthetics in shapes, colours, and music has predominantly focused on Western populations, limiting our understanding of how cultural environments s…
Are Expressions for Music Emotions the Same Across Cultures?
Elif Celen, Pol van Rijn, Harin Lee +1
Music evokes profound emotions, yet the universality of emotional descriptors across languages remains debated. A key challenge in cross-cultural research on music emotion is biase…