Music really is a universal language

Researcher Thomas Fritz with two of the Mafa women who participated in his music study to demonstrate music conveys emotion across cultures

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It’s often said that a picture is worth a thousand words but the same image can have different meanings across cultures. Music, however, may bridge the cultural divide: a new study has shown that regardless of culture or previous exposure, people were accurately able to recognize three emotions in Western music - happiness, sadness and fear.

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