Pygmy Mbenzele and hipsters perceive music in the same way

Mbenzele pygmies live without internet, radio or television. Therefore, they have never been in contact with Western musical culture. Nevertheless, they naturally link musical extracts from Western music with same emotions that we would typically ascribe to the passages: joy, sadness, fear, etc. Watch this interview of Nathalie Fernando, ethnomusicologist from the University of Montreal, talk about research that has been conducted on pygmies.