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| Title |
Gender and Music Composition: A Study of Music, and the Gendering of Meanings
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, March 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00411 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Desmond C. Sergeant, Evangelos Himonides |
| Abstract |
In this study claims that music communicates gendered meanings are considered, and relevant literature is reviewed. We first discuss the nature of meaning in music, and how it is constructed and construed. Examples of statements of gendering in the literature are cited, and the problems identified by writers who have questioned their validity are considered. We examine the concepts underlying terminology that has been used in inconsistent and contradictory ways. Three hypotheses are posed, and tested by means of two listening tasks. Results are presented that indicate that gendering is not inherent in musical structures, but is contributed to the perceptual event by the listener. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 21 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 8 | 38% |
| India | 2 | 10% |
| Comoros | 1 | 5% |
| Thailand | 1 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |
| Ireland | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 7 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 71% |
| Scientists | 3 | 14% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 86 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 86 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 10% |
| Professor | 3 | 3% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 13% |
| Unknown | 27 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities | 27 | 31% |
| Psychology | 9 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 3% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 10% |
| Unknown | 29 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 March 2021.
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#3,658
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#29,952
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#70
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