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Ethnicity can determine music preferences and tastes. This article focuses on unconscious ethnicity, meaning the unwitting displacement of personal ethnic values to music preferences that may be of the same or of different cultural origin. A research case with music evocations of both members of a psychotherapy dyad is illustrative.
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de Chumaceiro, C.L.D. Unconscious Ethnicity in Induced Song Recall: A Research Case Revisited. Journal of Poetry Therapy 15, 71–78 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014763014928
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