Why Do We Favor Music Genres?

Is it simply the product of what we listened to and what was popular when we were young, or are we born with a predisposition toward certain genres?

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I attended an after show of an ‘80s band recently. And the guitar player, who is in his mid-thirties – so he’s obviously not an original – was playing air guitar to Rod Stewart’s “Stay with Me.”…