The Origins of Music: We Play Music Because We Are Social Beings

How can it be that we are able to hear something and instantly recognize and categorize it as “music”? This is because music is a product of our culture and biology on equal footing with language. By Amanda Valbøll Jensen (Translated from Danish by John O’Sullivan) Everything around us produces sound: The car driving down …

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