They used to teach this as an open enrollment course in college (at least mine, which was not atypical of the larger liberal arts college scene). It was called "music of non-western cultures", and pretty much everyone who took it came out with the opinion that this non-western music was pretty interesting and cool.

I mean, c'mon. Anyone who has been exposed to the concept of non-western music will know that the 12-tone scale is not a universal construction.