wnyc.org: "Native African people who have never even listened to the radio before can nonetheless pick up on happy, sad, and scared emotions in Western music, according to a new report published in the journal Current Biology. Dr. Thomas Fritz of the Max-Planck Institute tells us about visiting an isolated village in Cameroon in which he played samples of rock, jazz and classical music for a local tribe – and why this study "provides the first solid evidence for a universal human ability to distinguish basic emotions in music." Read on
