For Thursday, March 26

Complete the Quick Write over the relationship between music and humanity.  You should bring in about a page and a half.  Remember to answer all parts of the question.

In search of a world language, music seems to the universal language of Earth regardless if the song is sung in Arabic or Spanish or Japanese or is recorded in Swahili. Humanity has been communicating through music longer than spoken language. Even now instruments in fusion music, local and indigenous and classical music still earns respect from warring factions and divided nations. Music has been used in the past and currently the present as a form of diplomacy sometimes backed by governments across the world in cultural exchanges by citizen led initiatives from film festivals, musical collaborations between national bands across borders or further away to call for understanding, cooperation and peace where politicians have failed to bridge the gap. Just as it has been used for diplomacy it has also become a tool of therapy for distressed people: soldiers and civilians suffering PTSD and daily stress of life in general. Than there is the role of music in propaganda and how it has been used to promote a jingoistic and exclusionary nationalism. But at the end of the day, music is still regarded as a culture and sound everyone around the world enjoys and immerses in.