The Foundation of Expression: How Music Shapes Language, History and Humanity

Music is inextricable in our daily lives. As infants, we use the musical and linguistic sounds of a language to be able to learn our mother tongue. In essence, music enables humans to learn languages at the first place. Without music, no one will be able to learn his mother tongue language as an infant with no previous dataset of syntax and semantics to resemble it. When humans listen to songs, their heartbeat rhythm aligns with one of the song, and repetitive lyrics create an echo chamber in the brain, creating new habitual thoughts and affecting emotions. The development of music media and the increased level of technology has led to widespread music which is marketed to a diverse group of people, increasing a sense of community and prosocial behaviour among groups. Underneath it all, music has a great power to break deep-rooted norms and beliefs, challenge one’s sense of identity, and forge a new community where it is once impossible with many differing attitudes and conflicting beliefs.