A sad song like Chopin’s Funeral March is only melancholic if you grew up in the west, study claims, suggesting emotions in response to music vary by location.
Music is known to make people feel many different emotions, ranging from happy to sad, but new research suggests this is linked to where in the world you were raised.
Researchers from Durham University played volunteers from the UK and two tribes in remote parts of Pakistan a wide selection of real and artificially created music.