Liking unfamiliar music: Effects of felt emotion and individual differences.

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Current Emotion Research in Music Psychology (2015, background): “…(Ladinig & Schellenberg, 2012; Vuoskoski, Thompson, McIlwain, & Eerola, 2012) are particularly likely to enjoy sad sounding music, as are introverts (Ladinig & Schellenberg, 2012), and people who score high on a measure of “absorption” (Garrido & Schubert, 2011, 2013a; Kreutz et al., 2008).”
The Case for Mixed Emotions (2014, unknown): “As predicted, they found that songs with conflicting cues elicited more mixed emotions than songs with consistent cues (see also, Hunter, Schellenberg, & Schimmack, 2010; Ladinig & Schellenberg, 2012).”
The Musicality of Non-Musicians: An Index for Assessing Musical Sophistication in the General Population (2014, background): “With regards to music, links with openness to experience have been discovered with the appreciation of unfamiliar music [101], musical preferences [84], [102], musical listening styles [103], self-assessed musical intelligence [86], and more diverse music tastes [104].”
Adaptive and maladaptive attraction to negative emotions in music (2013, background): “Openness-to-experience has also been linked to a liking for sad music (Ladinig & Schellenberg, 2012; Vuoskoski et al., 2012).”