When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Psychology of music preference - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_music_preference

    Furthermore, women prefer popular music more than men. [24] In a study of personality and gender in preference for exaggerated bass in music, researchers found that men demonstrated more of a preference for bassy music than women. This preference for bassy music is also correlated with antisocial and borderline personalities. [33]

  3. Musical anhedonia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Anhedonia

    Music is often considered to be a universal language, and individuals with musical anhedonia may find it difficult to understand why they do not gain pleasure from it. Two core societal benefits have emerged from the new empirical research into the condition: it has helped people with the condition to better understand why they are affected by ...

  4. Music of the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_United_States

    Some distinct aspects of American music, like the call-and-response format, are derived from African techniques and instruments. Throughout the later part of American history, and into modern times, the relationship between American and European music has been a discussed topic among scholars of American music.

  5. Cultural impact of Elvis Presley - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Elvis...

    In a list of the greatest English language singers, as compiled by Q magazine, Presley was ranked first, [2] and second in the list of greatest singers of the 20th century by BBC Radio. [3] Some people claim that Presley created a whole new style of music: "It wasn't black, wasn't white, wasn't pop or wasn't country—it was different."

  6. Many in America’s top 10% still feel ‘very poor’ but ...

    www.aol.com/finance/many-america-top-10-still...

    The top 1% all live better than John D Rockefeller was living when I was six years old. … And today, you can get better medicine, better education, better entertainment, and better ...

  7. Culture of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Southern...

    Rather, Southern American English is a collection of dialects of the English spoken throughout the South. Southern American English can be divided into different sub-dialects, with speech differing between, for example, that of Appalachian region and the coastal "low country" around Charleston, South Carolina.

  8. ‘Why, why, why?’ – 9 famous songs that were banned - AOL

    www.aol.com/why-why-why-9-famous-075646182.html

    Some songs were written to provoke, while others have fallen foul of misinterpretation. Lizzy Cooney picks some of the most infamous cases of musical censorship ‘Why, why, why?’ – 9 famous ...

  9. Evolutionary musicology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_musicology

    Like the origin of language, the origin of music has been a topic for speculation and debate for centuries. [3] Leading theories include Darwin's theory of partner choice (women choose male partners based on musical displays), the idea that human musical behaviors are primarily based on behaviors of other animals (see zoomusicology), the idea that music emerged because it promotes social ...