It is learnt that people have strong ability to recognize music in their childhoods because of the quality of the music and intergenerational transmission. According to the study, music in the past eras is predicted to have better quality than current music in the market. However, there is no detailed explanation for this claim. Previous music is not necessarily better for the participant to remember. If it is ever better, it must be viewed more from their parent’s perspective, and so, it is more of culture – related explanation than the music itself explanation. What it means by culture here is how parents value music and raise their children along with their mindset about that music. It does not depend on the music itself but depends on how the century of the previous generation views that music. For example, as also recorded throughout the study, the fact that men listen to more rap than women is a result of parents’ expectation that girl should listen to soothing and gentle music (which is a backward thinking nowadays). Thus, people themselves remember a certain type of song or music as they remember the very first songs they learnt from the very first days exposed to music, which is seen as an unforgettable milestone of life . The same pattern is also applied to intergenerational …show more content…
Although it is just a short article, it is well structured and presents almost every aspect of the longer one. It clearly states two main points of the longer journal which are “Nostalgia for music” and “Musical Inheritance” in which each one is explained in a very detailed way with the summary of its approach and its result. Especially for “Musical inheritance” point, it even includes statistics such as number of participants, their ages, and the exact time period in which study is found. Hence, it takes people shorter time to read the article while still provides them with enough information about the