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PLZ WRITE SOMETHING YOU ALREADY KNOW, NOT RESEARCH 

Prior to reading the articles, here are some things you might want to discuss, although you are welcome to go in any direction you would like within the topic:

• Why should we care about this? 
  
• What strikes you as especially interesting about this topic?
• If you have some special interest/knowledge about the topic, we invite you to share it with your group (e.g., sharing an interesting link or video).
• What changes have you noticed in recent years?
• Speaking generally, would you consider it a positive or negative force?
• How does this fit into the context of contemporary American society?

requirement

 -Demonstrates understanding of topic

-Honors decorum appropriate for a public forum (e.g., adopting a respectful tone when disagreeing)

-Employs college-level spelling and grammar

-300+ words (not including quotations from group mates or articles)

-Please remember that your posts should be at least 300 words and incorporate the thoughts of a classmate, by name. Thoughtfully integrates a group mate’s ideas (not just “I agree with Jasmine…)

Here is the classmates post

"JACOB

Music, as we know it, is a derivative of sound. Sound then gets combined with tone and repetition to make beats and lyrics which then, in turn, give us modern music. I am fascinated with music because it seems so intrinsic to humans specifically while also so inspired by nature. From a scientific standpoint, music has taught people how to speak and move after facing near-fatal car accidents. Music seems to be a cultural universal; we have found elements and forms of it in all current cultures. It seems odd to me that, given the evolutionary perspective that scientists have deemed to have formed the world, we would not share this trait with our closest primates; apes, gorillas, and moneys that we practically share the same DNA with.  

Creating and understanding music is something that we take for granted. Underneath the ability to comprehend tone and repetition, music also involves processing pitch, melody, emotion, volume, beat, and vocal control at the rate in which the song plays; real time. Physically, music draws on all different facilities to comprehend. As such, we often find ourselves moving our bodies to the music; an ancient attempt to synchronize one’s heartbeat to that of the song beat. We are able to quickly pick up on patterns in sound and pitch then, shortly after, gain the capability of anticipating those patterns. If you ask two individuals to sing together, you typically find them either matching matching the other’s pitch or shifting an octave higher or lover based on their vocal capabilities.

It is clear that music is a unique characteristic that seems to lay at the evolutionary core of who we are. Personally, I see the effects of that in the culture of my daily life and in American culture in general. I enjoy music because it transports me to certain moments or memories. Whenever I am alone, I find myself reaching for my headphones to put my favorite song that day on. On a broader scale, music has been used as a spearhead for revolution as well as a weapon for propaganda. In 2013, Same Love was published by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. This song spoke about Macklemore’s experience as a straight man and his attempt to understand the LGBTQ community and find ways to be an ally. This song was published at a time where its influence was able to help sway public opinion. The public awareness and outcry for justice that this song evoked could also be argued to be a driver Obama’s eventual signing of the Marriage Equality Act of 2015."