Is There Such A Thing As Universal Music?

“When we listen to music from another culture, it’s easy to get it badly wrong… We are likely to miss most of the nuances and allusions, think it all sounds the same or even dismiss it as a racket. Most 20th-century ethnomusicologists who compared the music of different cultures argued that this was because the way we make music and respond to it is learned, and therefore culture-specific. Yet there does seem to be something universal about music.”