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Abstract: In my dissertation’s second Chapter I have presented the results of a survey among 453 participants from different countries about the way they handle song lyrics. The results are promising, yet, due to methodological issues and additional related research questions, further research is required. As I am working on my own, without funding, I would like to ask a few questions in order to receive some help and advice from the network colleagues.In the current experiment the participants answered 17 questions concerning their listening behavior and 6 concerning the kind of lyrics they prefer. The main hypotheses were that people would show various more or less peripheral kinds of listening to song lyrics in different occasions. Some people would claim that they often pay attention to song lyrics consciously, others would claim that they never do so, however, both of them would say that there would be occasions in which they only hear or remember a few lines of a song, in which they turn out to know parts of a song by heart without having learned them, or in which they were touched by a song‚Äôs lyrics only after hearing them several times before.
A few questions considered the perception of banalities and linguistic errors, and the role of native language in relation to the language used in a song. Dutch native speakers turn out to be more tolerant towards foreign languages than others, particularly English native speakers.
Contrary to what is often claimed, these results show that people do not have to catch the content of a song immediately to like it, nor do they neglect the lyrics of a song totally.
| Period | 7 May 2021 |
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| Event title | LCOCOMUS meeting 2021 (Low Countries Music Network) |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Amsterdam/Leiden, NetherlandsShow on map |