Why D We Have Music?
In a world full of universal truths, the public majority cares not to distinguish between which ideas are truly acknowledged the world ‘round, and which are just fabrications (Meyer). According to Leonard B. Meyer’s article in The Journal of American Medical Association, there are no existing universal truths in the many ideas of music and its theories. However, music by itself, is universal, because music is a prevalent tool in all cultures of the world (Weinberger). Being universal, music has sprung from many aspects of human development in individual countries. The process of evolution proposes the idea that music’s original purpose was to aid in sexual selection. Biomusicologists have made it feasible that females were attracted to males who made music, thus causing the non- musical males to be less likely to reproduce. “In short, we have music, because to be human is to be musical” (Weinberger). Understanding why evolution brought music into existence, it is evident that its original purpose is ‘outdated’ in most cultures. This raises a seemingly simple question: What good is music today? Such a question facilitates a much more complex answer. Music affects people in an array of fashi
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