Analysing Nostalgia in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Farese, Gian Marco; Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko

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“…Hepper et al (2014)'s analysis shows nostalgia exists in a wide range of cultural contexts. However, additional work suggests the particular meaning of nostalgia varies across cultures (Farese and Asano-Cavanagh 2019). Some evidence suggests tendency toward nostalgia varies by a country's collectivism or individualism (Abakoumkin, Wildschut, and Sedikides 2020;Granot et al 2021).…”

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Time after Time: Longitudinal Trends in Nostalgic Listening

Hanson

Anderton²,

Way³

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Nostalgia was once considered a medical disease but is now understood as a beneficial, identity-affirming emotion. Yet what induces feelings of nostalgia is not fully understood. Are nostalgic feelings prompted by changes in a person’s life, and do certain events prompt nostalgia across whole populations? In this paper, we analyze when people listen to nostalgic music. We use data from a large, cross-national survey to train a classifier to detect which tracks are nostalgic for individual listeners. We then analyze a comprehensive dataset of listening histories from a 5.5 year period. Despite it being a complex concept, we were able to predict nostalgic listening with relatively high precision. We compare our results across listeners from four countries to understand how consistent behavior toward nostalgic music is. We find people listen to nostalgic music more often as they age. We also find people tend to listen to nostalgic music consistently in their day-to-day lives. We do not find evidence that listening to personally nostalgic music increases in response to particular traditions, seasons, or events. However, we do find traditions and events can affect how much “back catalog” music people listen to. These trends are consistent across the national contexts we studied. Our results advance prior findings about nostalgia and the life course, and demonstrate a novel methodological consideration for studies of nostalgic listening.

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Time after Time: Longitudinal Trends in Nostalgic Listening

Hanson

Anderton²,

Way³

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Is there justice in this world? A cross-cultural pragmatic analysis of the conceptualisation of ‘justice’

Romero-Trillo

Rozina

2023

Journal of Multicultural Discourses

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“Help! I Need Somebody”: Music as a Global Resource for Obtaining Wellbeing Goals in Times of Crisis

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Music can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance positive mood, and facilitate social bonding. However, little is known about the role of music and related personal or cultural (individualistic vs. collectivistic) variables in maintaining wellbeing during times of stress and social isolation as imposed by the COVID-19 crisis. In an online questionnaire, administered in 11 countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the UK, and USA, N = 5,619), participants rated the relevance of wellbeing goals during the pandemic, and the effectiveness of different activities in obtaining these goals. Music was found to be the most effective activity for three out of five wellbeing goals: enjoyment, venting negative emotions, and self-connection. For diversion, music was equally good as entertainment, while it was second best to create a sense of togetherness, after socialization. This result was evident across different countries and gender, with minor effects of age on specific goals, and a clear effect of the importance of music in people's lives. Cultural effects were generally small and surfaced mainly in the use of music to obtain a sense of togetherness. Interestingly, culture moderated the use of negatively valenced and nostalgic music for those higher in distress.

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Analysing Nostalgia in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Cited by 3 publications

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Time after Time: Longitudinal Trends in Nostalgic Listening

Time after Time: Longitudinal Trends in Nostalgic Listening

Is there justice in this world? A cross-cultural pragmatic analysis of the conceptualisation of ‘justice’

“Help! I Need Somebody”: Music as a Global Resource for Obtaining Wellbeing Goals in Times of Crisis

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