The current study pilot tested a popular music media literacy website that was developed based on the final report of APA Division 46 Task Force Sexualization Popular Music (2018). hypothesized education would produce significant differences between baseline assessment and post-literacy for outcomes related to reflecting real life, viewing self as similar portrayals, skepticism, level engagemen...

This study examined the influence of manipulated and naturalistic exposure to sexually degrading music on young men’s perceptions of women’s dating-relevant affective cues. Three hundred ninety-seven undergraduate heterosexual men completed an affect-identification task in which they judged whether women communicated sexual interest, friendliness, sadness, or rejection. Either sexually degradin...

Courses MUSC 101D | AMERICAN MUSIC Units: 3 This course will explore a variety of musical styles and practices from the late 1800s to the present, including blues, jazz, folk, rock, musical theater, art music, and the many faces of popular music. Historical and cultural aspects will be examined in order to better understand how political events, cultural values, social norms, and racial and gen...

Composers of popular music weave lyrics, melody, and instrumentation together to create a consistent and compelling emotional scene. The relationships among these elements are critical to musical communication, and understanding the statistics behind these relationships can contribute to numerous problems in music information retrieval and creativity support. In this paper, we present the resul...