when people say music is a universal, they mean that music is universal in all human cultures. that a small %age of people in this culture or that culture don't

when people say music is a universal, they mean that music is universal in all human cultures. that a small %age of people in this culture or that culture don't like music doesn't stop it from being a cultural universal. (if there is a parsing of a sentence that means what the speaker means and is true, that's good enough, and whether someone can find an alternate parsing which fails might be interesting, but doesn't take away from the intended meaning)