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The Importance of
Music
Janet Ramirez
Public Speaking
Music Today
O There are over 50 genres that exist
O A lot of these new genres
involve electronically produced
music (ex. EDM, Dubstep,
Techno, etc.)
O Different languages
incorporated into songs
All these genres have things in
common…
O Bind people together
O Evoke strong emotions/feelings
O Music-induced trance
O Music Therapy
O Music imagery & Hallucinations
O Musicogenic Epilepsy
Binding People Together
O Concerts, clubs, parties, etc.
allow people to bond and experience
music together
O Music plays an important role in
special occasions such as weddings, parades, and
religious festivities
O “…means of giving voice to their
common experience and to give
vent to anger, grief and frustration at
their mistreatment.”
Evoke Strong
Emotions/Feelings
O Motivation
O Sadness
O Euphoria
Music-Induced Trance
O “Ecstatic singing/dancing, wild movements
and cries, perhaps, rhythmic rocking, or
catatonia-like rigidity or immobility…”
Music Therapy
O “…music was as powerful
as any drug.”
O Important to people with
Motor disorders like
Parkinson’s and Tourette’s
Syndrome.
Music Therapy
O Also to others with frontal
lobe, alzheimer's, autism, or William’s
syndrome
Music Imagery &
Hallucinations
O Common and affects about 2% of those
losing their hearing
O “…most common form of
non-psychotic hallucination.”
Musicogenic Epilepsy
O Sensitivity to music and sound
O May often lead to
seizures!
In Conclusion…
Music is insanely powerful 
Resources:
O http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/129/
10/2528.full.pdf+html
O http://www.interdependence.unimelb.edu.
au/lib/Microsoft%20Word%20-
%20Connecting%20through%20music_Gl
obal%20interdependence_%20_4_.pdf

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