Why do you like it? Science and culture of musical taste. Gasser N.

What attracts us to music and why does it have such a powerful effect on us? How are the musical preferences of a person and his psychological characteristics, as well as the device of his brain? Why do some songs cause us delight, while others plunge into despondency? What is a musical genotype and what genotype do you have? You will find answers to these and many other questions about music on the pages of this book, written with maximum scientific depth, but understandable not only to professional musicians or scientists, but also to ordinary music lovers.

Nolan Gasser - a composer, pianist, musicologist, creator of the “Project of the musical genome” of the Pandora streaming service - attracts accurate and natural sciences in his innovative study of the origins of musical taste, as well as psychology, cultural studies and sociology. To understand the “musical genotype” of each of us, the author immerses readers into the world of their favorite genres: pop, rock music, jazz, hip-hop, electronics, ethnic music and classics, and analyzes a wide range of works-from Taylor Swift, Led Zeppelin and Kendrick Lamara to Bill Evans and Beethoven. This book will teach you how to monitor the musical discourse of the work, it is better to understand and analyze different genres, help you become a more advanced and enthusiastic listener, give tools to improve and expand your musical preferences and develop your musical taste. You can never listen to music as before - your pleasure from music will grow many times.