Preferred Dance Tempo: Does Sex or Body Morphology Influence How We Groove?

Journal of New Music Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 214-223

  Dahl, Sofia ^a   Huron, David ^b   Brod, Garvin ^c   Altenmüller, Eckart ^d  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^d Hanover University of Music Drama and Media   (Germany)

Author keywords

audience; body morphology; dance tempo; perception; social aspects; timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902655173     PISSN: 09298215     EISSN: 17445027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09298215.2014.884144     Document Type: Article

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