Who invented song

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You can see on their faces that music is having the most intense positive effect. Forty thousand people are completely bound up in being a group member. Even though you don't know them at all, part of our theory is that the music is there to bind you and control you, not as an individual but as a member of a group. As humans our primary motivation in life is to be a good group member. People start to feel great when they lose their individual identity and become part of this larger whole.

I think we boo other social behavior all the time, not explicitly. When people don't hold up their end of a social contract, that's what gets you ostracized from a group.

I don't think musicians are immune from that ostracism just because they happen to be in control. I think even when you listen by yourself, what makes that feel good is that you are kind of being tricked—much like when you watch TV—into thinking you're interacting with people, tricked into thinking you're part of a group. Our core motivation is to feel like we belong. Anything that tricks you into feeling that way is going to feel rewarding, you're going to pursue that like a drug.

What we would argue is you play music and that gives you power to control a large group of people and power is attractive to the opposite sex. My favorite artist is Stevie Wonder : I think he's incredibly effective at communicating emotions. He makes you feel what he feels. And he clearly feels a lot. All rights reserved. Why did humans invent music? In this sense, most songs have many creators, particularly when we talk about songs as they are performed and recorded. Many of these creators can be identified, their roles explored.

Printed music almost always transmits a date of publication; by the s recordings often included a date on the label. For earlier recordings, try to find the date in a discography like those published by Brian Rust and his collaborators, listed in the annotated bibliography.

But in many cases a song was not published or recorded until several years after its creation, and here the search for an earliest date becomes a matter of research on biographies and performance history. If there are several versions of the song, then we may want to ask which versions are earlier, which are later, and what is the relation of the versions to one another.

Many songs were created for a specific purpose, often having to do with publication or performance and profit.