Nolan Gasser, "Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste" (Flatiron Books, 2019)
New Books in Psychology
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The Human Genum Project
The human genum project was a big deal in the year two thousand. The idea is to think about music almost like a biological species, and what we did as we took in each individual species of music. What are all those musical factors based on these parometers of melody, harmony, rhythm, form, sound? And then if we coul figure out how in each individual song those genes are expressed, well now we can actually make interesting comparisons.
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