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in music •  7 years ago 

Music is found in every known culture, past and present, varying widely between times and places. Since all people of the world, including the most isolated tribal groups, have a form of music, it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world. bold****bold imageConsequently, music may have been in existence for at least 55,000 years and the first music may have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become a fundamental constituent of human life.[

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"The World In Six Songs" by Daniel Levitin may interest you. I am reading it right now and it goes through all sorts of ways that music has shaped us individually and socially.

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