Scandinavian Heavy Metal: Why Earth's Happiest Place Makes the Darkest Music

Music can evoke many nuanced emotions. We don't always pay enough attention to what music is saying or how it's being understood. For instance:

• Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” make people feel energized. 
• The Clash’s “Rock the Casbah” pump people up. 
• Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together”...

Music and its creation come with a larger context of culture, ethnicity, heritage, lifestyles and habits of humans in the particular era. This study is known as Ethnomusicology, a term coined by musicologist Jaap Kunst.

Non-western music, like world music ...

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