While technology has made accessing only the music you like far easier, the fact remains that humans seem to seek out music for nearly all of the same reasons.
Music grabs our emotions in a universal way that few other mediums can manage.
This isn’t just an opinion I feel inclined to wax poetic about either: In a study by Lonsdale and North (2010) in which the researchers gathered and analyzed the reasons for listening to music from a sample of young people, 6 universal functions of music were found.
In this post, I’m going to count down those functions as rated by the researchers in descending order.
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