Music is great. It's really the only universal language and anyone can do it. Lets face it, everyone likes music. Almost everyone who can afford an mp3 player has one. Everywhere on the planet there is music, no matter how poor, no matter how stuck up, there can, and always will be music.
Music is an extraordinary activity. Every culture has their own language and no one knows every single language. But everyone knows what music is and anyone can make it. You can give a drum to a person that has been cut off from the rest of the world, he could figure out what to do with it. Music's pretty extraordinary.
Music is an extraordinary activity. Every culture has their own language and no one knows every single language. But everyone knows what music is and anyone can make it. You can give a drum to a person that has been cut off from the rest of the world, he could figure out what to do with it. Music's pretty extraordinary.
Now its available everywhere you go, which is great for me because it's like having a soundtrack throughout my entire life. The Walkman was the first mobile music player and I think it was fairly revolutionary, I know some people that still have them, considering how old they are, it's impressive to me. A few years down the road something called the ipod was created by the good folks at Mac. This invention has no doubt changed my life, and they're constantly getting better. I just recently bought the generation Nano, which has a camcorder on it. It's amazing but I'll save that for another blog, anyways, the mobile mp3 player revolutionized the music industry because now music is available anywhere you go.
To sum up, music is a mystery. Anyone can play it (though not everyone should) and everyone likes it, or at least, they like good music. But that leads to questions like, what makes good music? Why does music stimulate the brain? How does classical music make babies smarter? I have absolutely no idea, but I have no problem talking about it, and i will be.
Your question about why music stimulates the brain is a particularly interesting one, at least to me. A famous doctor named Oliver Sacks recently wrote a book about this, which I've read bits of. It starts with the true story of a guy who got hit by lightning, and it turned him more or less overnight into a concert pianist. Funky stuff. You can get a sense here:
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As far as this post is concerned, I'd say it's generally a good introduction to the issues WITHIN music you seem to want to cover. You mention in particular its universality and the technology that makes it portable. Both of these are great topics...but I notice a lot of redundancy in the way you're addressing them. Example:
"Everywhere on the planet there is music, no matter how poor, no matter how stuck up, there can, and always will be music." Followed by: "Every culture has their own language and no one knows every single language. But everyone knows what music is and anyone can make it."
Remember to CUT in order to keep things simple and clear!
Looking forward to your next posts. Hope you do stick with this topic.