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    Challenges→Music is expressively neutral — instrumental music does not inherently express any particular emotion.

    Because slow descending minor-key phrases structurally resemble the vocal and physical comportment of grief cross-culturally, instrumental music possesses inherent expressive content independent of listener agreement.

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    Cross-culturally(as describing how intuitions differ between groups)
    Comparing or studying differences between people from different cultures or parts of the world.
    Expressive content(as used in aesthetics and philosophy of music)
    The emotional meaning or feeling that something communicates—like how a sad song makes you feel sad, regardless of whether it has lyrics.
    Independent of listener agreement(as used in epistemology and aesthetics)
    Existing or being true whether or not people agree about it or perceive it the same way.
    Inherent(as used in metaphysics)
    Built-in or naturally part of something, rather than added by someone else's interpretation.
    Structurally resemble(as used in aesthetics and music theory)

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    Having a similar pattern, form, or organization—like how two things are built or arranged in comparable ways.
    comportment(Used by black American republican thinkers to highlight the role of character in sustaining race-based domination)
    The bearing, attitudes, and character exhibited by members of a dominant group, here white Americans, as a constitutive element of racial domination

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