How Music Can Improve Attitudes Toward People From Other Cultures

Jona voskowski is an associate professor in music cognition at the university of oslow, norway. She did an experiment to explore whether listening to music from other countries could improve attitudes towards people from cultures. First jona and her team measured how much ampathy people had in general. Then they divided everyone into two groups. Group one listened to a piece of west african popular music, and group two listened to a pieces of moving indian popular music. Both of these songs were sung by a female singer, and the lyrics were in languages that the participants couldn't understand. Afterward, they measured how the music affected participant's unconscious feelings toward indian or west afAfrican people