ONE PROMINENT EXAMPLE OF GLOBALIZATION AND MASS cultural exchange is bilingualism, whereby world citizens learn to understand and speak multiple languages.Music, similar to language, is a human universal, and subject to the effects of globalization. In two experiments, we asked whether bimusicalism exists as a phenomenon, and whether it can occur even without explicit formal training and extensive music-making. Everyday music listeners who had significant exposure to music of both Indian (South Asian) and Western traditions (IW listeners) and listeners who had experience with only Indian or Western culture (I or W listeners) participated in recognition memory and tension judgment experiments where they listened to Western and Indian music. We found that while I and W listeners showed an in-culture bias, IW listeners showed equal responses to music from both cultures, suggesting that dual mental and affective sensitivities can be extended to a nonlinguistic domain.
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December 2009
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December 01 2009
Bimusicalism: The Implicit Dual Enculturation of Cognitive and Affective Systems
Patrick C. M. Wong
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Patrick C. M. Wong
Northwestern University
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Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
University of Arkansas
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Music Perception (2009) 27 (2): 81–88.
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Patrick C. M. Wong, Anil K. Roy, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis; Bimusicalism: The Implicit Dual Enculturation of Cognitive and Affective Systems. Music Perception 1 December 2009; 27 (2): 81–88. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2009.27.2.81
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