Associate Professor Dr. Hauke Egermann
I am an academic investigating music, sound and media with empirical research methods. Here you will find information about me and my work.
I direct the York Music Psychology Group, at the Department of Music, University of York, UK (here, you can find more up to date information on my work).
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The aim of this research is to measure the extent to which individuals use music for specific functions.
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PUBLICATION ALERT!
In this study, Noah, Diana and Hauke measured whether music’s use in mood regulation is influenced by coping orientations and/or demographic variables in response to the lockdown measures imposed in the United Kingdom, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The results provide insight into how individuals have engaged with music-orientated coping strategies in response to a unique stressor.
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Music is a tool used in daily life in order to mitigate negative and enhance positive emotions. Listeners may orientate their engagement with music around its ability to facilitate particular emotional responses and to subsequently regulate mood. Existing scales have aimed to gauge both individual c...A team from Digital Creativity Labs and the Department of Music has interrogated data from more than 25,000 Spotify playlists to gain an insight into the ways in which listening has been used during the COVID-19 pandemic.
From the most frequently included track on a playlist (The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights) to the most ‘average’ song (Donna Summer’s Last Dance), the playlists emerging from the study reveal an intriguing picture of how we listened in lockdown.
Go to the article to access the playlists which contain the 100 most popular tracks included in covid-centric, the average covid-centric playlist, and the ‘Average' covid-centric playlist but with new releases/chart influence removed
Listening in Lockdown | Digital Creativity Labs
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A team from Digital Creativity Labs and the Department of Music has interrogated data from more than 25,000 Spotify playlists to gain an insight into the ways in which listening has been used during the COVID-19 pandemic.PUBLICATION ALERT!
You can now read our collaborative article with our Experimental Concert Research partners. This article uses the sociological concept of the frame to develop a theory of an aesthetic experience with music as the result of encountering sound/music in the context of a specific situation. By presenting a transdisciplinary sub-field of empirical (concert) studies, we unfold this theory for one such frame: the classical concert.
What impact did music listening have on us during the first UK lockdown in 2020? Find out by reading our new article written by Hannah Gibbs and Hauke Egermann!
"Music-Evoked Nostalgia and Wellbeing During the United Kingdom COVID-19 Pandemic: Content, Subjective Effects, and Function"