Exploring Musical Preferences: An In-Depth Qualitative Study of Adults' Liking for Music in Their Personal Collections

Qualitative Research in Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 402-427

  Greasley, Alinka ^a   Lamont, Alexandra ^a   Sloboda, John ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

music collections; musical preference; musical style; musical taste; qualitative; responses to music; uses of music

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879657727     PISSN: 14780887     EISSN: 14780895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2011.647259     Document Type: Article

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