Dimensionen der Groove-Affordanz (DGA) beim Hören populärer Musik Ein neues Messinstrument und eine vergleichende Validierungsstudie Dimensions of Groove Affordances (DGA) When Listening to Popular Music A New Measurement Instrument and a Comparative Validation Study

Abstract

Movement sensations and impulses triggered by listening to music can have very different qualities and, in everyday life, can lead to physical actions such as dance movements if the music is sufficiently enjoyable, at a sufficient volume and in a suitable situation. In order to address the qualitative diversity of movement sensations, we present the DGA, a new measurement instrument. It is based on a factor analysis of an already existing dataset and is able to differentiate between three fundamental dimensions of perceived rhythmic structures when listening to music: roll, drive and pulse. Digital methods of data collection (web scraping, APIs, digital audio sampling and online survey) in combination with structural equation modelling (SEM) and robust statistical analysis methods (LMMs) are used to investigate whether the new measurement instrument also proves itself in a large stimulus pool of k = 448 pop music pieces in terms of model fit, reliability and discriminant validity. For this purpose, after calculating factor scores from n = 1775 collected listener ratings, genre differences that occurred with regard to the sensation of movement when listening to short pop song excerpts are evaluated. Analysis results show that the DGA exhibit good model fit and reliability even with a large number of musically diverse stimuli and thus can fulfil its claim to map different phenomenological aspects of movement impulses in its measurements with comparatively less influence from personal liking.