Categorizing Line Dances By Song Moods, 51-64 + Senior-Friendly Beginner Dances, part 1
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In this episode, Megan and I continue to apply psychologist Robert Thayer's energy/stress model of mood toward music so that we may sort line dances into four different categories (high or low energy or stress) for possible later use in balanced playlist creation.
Relevant links:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.182.937&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://sites.tufts.edu/eeseniordesignhandbook/2015/music-mood-classification/
We also begin to discuss the set of dances regularly danced and occasionally retaught at Christopher's Brookdale Senior Living class in Sonoma County, CA.