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 Westerners 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.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Wong2009a
%A Wong, Patrick C.M.
%A Roy, Anil K
%A Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth
%D 2009
%I University of California Press Journals Division, 2000 Center Street,
\#303, Berkeley, CA 94704-1223 USA journals@ucpress.edu
%J Music Perception
%K Indian culture,perception,perceptual learning,recognition memory,tension music,M1,M2,biculturalism,music,musical
%N 2
%P 81--88
%T Bimusicalism: The implicit dual enculturation of cognitive and affective
systems
%U http://caliber.ucpress.net.proxy.nss.udel.edu/doi/abs/10.1525/mp.2009.27.2.81
%V 27
%X 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 Westerners 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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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 Westerners 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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title = {Bimusicalism: The implicit dual enculturation of cognitive and affective
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