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 Musical Genotype
The musical genotype is something that i just coined in in the book as being eno. What i mean by that is that each of us has a genotype, a sort of an expression of o of the gens tat, of the genes of our musical taste. Our ge o type mike mi gene or type would be something that really, a, has a strong predilection for counterpoint and syclic harmony. And so we don't just love one song all the time: We may like them certain contexts; when we work out,. When we're on a walk with, you know, in the forest, ah, while we're doing home work.
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