Syncopation, Body-Movement and Pleasure in Groove Music

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094446
• Publication Date: 2014-04-16T20:34:31Z
• Authors: Maria A. G. Witek; Eric F. Clarke; Mikkel Wallentin; Morten L. Kringel...; Peter Vuust
• Keywords: Funk

Moving to music is an essential human pleasure particularly related musical groove. Structurally, associated with groove often characterised by rhythmic complexity in the form of syncopation, frequently observed styles such as funk, hip-hop and electronic dance music. Structural has been positive affect more broadly, but function syncopation eliciting body-movement unknown. Here we report results from a web-based survey which investigated relationship between ratings wanting move experienced pleasure. Participants heard funk drum-breaks varying degrees audio entropy, rated extent made them want how much they experienced. While entropy was found be poor predictor pleasure, showed that medium elicited most desire for participants who enjoy dancing Hence, there inverted U-shaped seems important structural factor embodied affective responses