xpert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.

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Do humans have something like an instinct for music? The musicologist Michael Spitzer thinks so. As he points out, every person is born with an innate ability to recognize rhythm, beat in time to it, and to recognize and recall melody.

Music-related abilities may be universal, but musical preferences and styles can differ greatly from culture to culture.

In this Big Think video, Spitzer explores why cultures interpret music differently, and also whether the internet will have a homogenizing effect on music.

0:00 The musical instinct
1:13 How music is colonized and counter-colonized
3:58 Why music will never homogenize

Read the video transcript ► https://bigthink.com/series/great-que…

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