Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Culture In Music Cognition


Culture in music recognition refers to the impact that a person's culture has on their music cognition, including their preferences, emotion recognition, and musical memory. Musical preferences are biased toward culturally familiar musical traditions beginning in infancy, and adults' classification of the emotion of a musical piece depends on both culturally specific and universal structural features. Individuals' musical memory abilities are greater for culturally familiar music than for culturally unfamiliar music. The sum of these effects makes culture a powerful influence in music cognition.
Culturally bound preferences and familiarity for music begin in infancy and continue through adolescence and adulthood. People tend to prefer and remember music from their own cultural tradition. Familiarity for culturally regular meter styles is already in place for young infants of only a few months' age. The looking times of 4 to 8 month old Western infants indicate that they prefer Western meter in music, while Turkish infants of the same age prefer both Turkish and Western meters. Both groups preferred either meter when compared with arbitrary meter.
I think this article is not accurate because if a person feels that he or she likes a kind of music that their culture does not like, then they are not betraying their culture, that music is just their preference.
Do you think culture has something to do with music preference? Explain.

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