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So this means that the next time someone says to me "I don't like X genre" or "I only listen to Jazz" I am allowed to murder them in their sleep for being uncul

• Nav_Panel 10y ago
  > uncultured Yeah, so, the problem with the headline is that, these days, "musical taste" is mostly a class signifier. A lot of research has been done relating to this[1] (though a lot is either paywalled or clickbaity news site). If you remove these class associations, most westerners will agree that consonant music sounds good (regardless of genre and context) and dissonant sounds less good. Whether this is due to nature or nurture is what the OP's article is trying to determine. 1: https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09072001-101445/unrestricted/whitethesis.doc.pdf https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09072001-1014...