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Cultural dissonance. In sociology and cultural studies, cultural dissonance is a sense of discord, disharmony, confusion, or conflict experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment. The changes are often unexpected, unexplained or not understandable due to various types of cultural dynamics.
In modern academia, music theory is a subfield of musicology, the wider study of musical cultures and history. Music theory is often concerned with abstract musical aspects such as tuning and tonal systems, scales, consonance and dissonance, and rhythmic relationships. In addition, there is also a body of theory concerning practical aspects ...
The opposition between consonance and dissonance can be made in different contexts: In acoustics or psychophysiology, the distinction may be objective.In modern times, it usually is based on the perception of harmonic partials of the sounds considered, to such an extent that the distinction really holds only in the case of harmonic sounds (i.e. sounds with harmonic partials).
Ethnic conflict is conflict between two or more contending ethnic groups. [17] Organizational conflict is discord caused by opposition of needs, values, and interests between people working together. [19] Role conflict involves incompatible demands placed upon a person in a manner that makes accomplishing both troublesome. [20]
Dissonance has several meanings related to conflict or incongruity: Cognitive dissonance is a state of mental conflict. Cultural dissonance is an uncomfortable sense experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment. Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord (the quality of a discord)
Hyperpop (sometimes called bubblegum bass) [1] is a loosely defined electronic music movement [2][3] and microgenre [4] that predominantly originated in the United Kingdom during the early 2010s. It is characterised by a maximalist or exaggerated take on popular music, [3] and typically integrates pop and avant-garde sensibilities while drawing ...
Discordianism is a belief system based around Eris, [1] the Greek goddess of strife and discord, and variously defined as a religion, [2] new religious movement, [3] virtual religion, [4] or act of social commentary; [5] though prior to 2005, some sources categorized it as a parody religion. [6]
Selective exposure is a theory within the practice of psychology, often used in media and communication research, that historically refers to individuals' tendency to favor information which reinforces their pre-existing views while avoiding contradictory information. Selective exposure has also been known and defined as "congeniality bias" or ...