How your culture informs your emotional reaction to music
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The Cultural Element of Music in the West
The tribes in northwest makison do not have the same ideas about tags in music as we do in the west. They would listen to these new western musics that they were being exposed to, and they would create their own connotations to them. For example, when our participants would listen to very sad, very emotional, fieling music, they would be able to discern that this music conveyed sadness. And but let's get into the harmonies, ause this was kind of the end goal of your research. So what did you find with harmonies? The idea that we have in the west, that major cords convey happiness is not necessarily true outside the western cultural sphere.
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