This is a repository copy of Popular Music as Entertainment Communication: How Perceived Semantic Expression Explains Liking Previously Unknown Music. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/163797/ Version: Published Version Article: Lepa, Steffen, Steffens, Jochen, Herzog, Martin et al. (1 more author) (2020) Popular Music as Entertainment Communication: How Perceived Semantic Expression Explains Liking Previously Unknown Music. Media and Communication. ISSN 2183-2439 10.17645/mac.v8i3.3153 Reuse This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. This licence allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as you credit the authors for the original work. More information and the full terms of the licence here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing
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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Media and Communication (ISSN: 2183–2439) 2020, Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 191–204 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v8i3.3153 Article Popular Music as Entertainment Communication: How Perceived Semantic Expression Explains Liking of Previously Unknown Music Steffen Lepa 1,*, Jochen Steffens 2, Martin Herzog 1 and Hauke Egermann 3 1 Audio Communication Group, TU Berlin, 10587 Berlin, Germany; E-Mail:
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[email protected] * Corresponding author Submitted: 14 April 2020 | Accepted: 26 June 2020 | Published: 13 August 2020 Abstract Our contribution addresses popular music as essential part of media entertainment offerings.