How your culture informs the emotions you feel when listening to music

“Abujie Baya, ta’biat prúst?”

I open my eyes to the sound of a voice as the twin-engine Pakistan Airlines propeller aircraft flies through the Hindu Kush mountain range, west of the mighty Himalayas. We are cruising at 27,000 feet, but the mountains around us appear worryingly close and the turbulence has woken me up during a 22-hour trip to the most remote place in Pakistan – the Kalash valleys of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region.

To my left, a distraught female passenger is quietly praying. On my immediate right…

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