I’m really curious as to how people without the ability to hear since birth imagine different genres of music or is it something that’s not possible without ever hearing sounds.
What sparked this question was subtitles in movies that say things like “rock music playing” (I assumed that’s more for hard of hearing people) and being stoned enough to ask the important questions at 1am Saturday night.
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I guess, when it comes to say metal, you can read about metal and what kind of themes it usually represents, maybe read something about subcultures and what type of people metal usually is listened by. So then by reading a sub like “happy metal theme” they can assume this is something unusual.
But for something vast and varied like rock – no idea.
I think music awakes different emotions in us, so you could write in the subtitles “sad music”, or “energetic music”. I think in hand sign language if you want to use an ! mark you repeat the moves faster. In text sometimes CAPS are used as SCREAMING.
There are different non verbal communication markers to express emotions/mood. But I’d be interesting to hear from a deaf person how they experience it.
As someone who used to go to raves, electronic music festivals, I met some deaf people who would love to get as close to the speakers as possible because they could feel the vibrations in their body, would see other people react to those and that would be a very unique experience for them.
Where it comes to subtitles just saying “rock music”, whitle for you as someone who can hear it it means next to nothing, someone deaf could connect that prompt with style of clothes, pictures, vibrations they experienced.
Word you exclusively corelate with sound has a lot more meaning to someone who hears nothing. And that one sentence actually helps to establish mood of a scene for example.
They feel different. The beat, tempo, etc are different in different genres.
They don’t, same way you ignore sound subtitles saying a sound you actually heard