An interesting article! Do read (link provided below) and if you’re inclined, share your opinion in the comments.
The fact that music is universal across cultures and has been part of human life for a very long time-archeologists have found musical instruments dating from 34,000 BC, and some believe that a 50,000-year-old hollowed-out bear bone from a Neanderthal campsite is an early flute-does suggest that it may indeed be an innate human tendency. And yet it’s unclear what purpose it serves.
The evolutionary benefits of our affinity for food (nutrition) and sex (procreation) are easy enough to explain, but music is trickier. It has become one of the great puzzles in the field of evolutionary psychology, a controversial discipline dedicated to determining the adaptive roots of aspects of modern behavior, from child-rearing to religion.
–Drake Bennett, Survival of the Harmonious
Interesting article. I posted a musing on my blog in recen days (weeks?) wondering why I preferred some music to some other music. I have met people who seem to have little or no emotional response to music.
By the way, thanks for looking at my blog and leaving a comment.