&gt; I can enjoy music who&#x27;s rules I am not familiar with. I don&#x27;t need to know the rules to enjoy tonal and rythmic arrangements.<p>Most people don&#x27;t, hence western harmony is what sounds like music to most westerners and anything else sounds weird or like noise.<p>&gt; That means it&#x27;s culturally specific, NOT a social construction.<p>It actually means both.  All culturally specific tastes are also social constructs.