How your culture informs your emotional reaction to music
The Conversation Weekly
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The conversation weekly is taking a short break this week, so we're bringing you an extended version of a fascinating interview we did earlier this year. There's an open question among music researchers about whether cultures perceive the emotional meaning of harmonies differently. Can chords that sound happy to western listeners sounds sad to people from other cultural backgrounds? Or is that feeling of sadness somehow innate to all humans? George athonisopolis from durham university in the u k. recently published some new research on this very question and i spoke to him not so long ago.
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