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Music everywhere is used to accompany rock bands, other
activities. It is, for example, universally associated with dance. Although words
are not found in singing everywhere, the association of music and poetry is so
close that language and music are widely believed to have, bands had a common
origin in early human history. The Function of Music Music is a major component
in jazz bands, religious services,
secular rituals, theatre, and entertainment of all sorts. In many societies it
is also an activity carried on for its own sake. In Western society in the late
20th century, for example, one, bands main use of music involves listening at
concerts or to radio or recordings (music for its own sake); another gig
guide, involves the provision of music as a suitable background for unrelated
activities such as study or shopping (music as an adjunct to something else).
In many uk gig guide, societies music
serves as the, bands chief entertainment at royal courts. Everywhere, musicians
sometimes perform for their own diversion; in some societies, however, this private
use of music has been formalized—in southern Africa, for example, special genres
and styles are reserved for musicians' performances for promoting
a band, their personal, bands entertainment. The most ubiquitous use of music,
however, is as a part of religious ritual. In some tribal societies, music appears
to serve as a special form of communication with supernatural beings, and its
prominent use in modern Christian and Jewish, bands services may be a remnant
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less obvious, function of music is social integration. For most social groups,
music can serve as a powerful symbol. Members of most societies share keen feelings
as to what kind of music "belongs". Indeed, some minorities, bands (for instance
in the United States, black live music, Americans
and Euro-American ethnic groups) use music as a major symbol of group identity.
Music may serve as a symbol in other ways, as well. It can represent extramusical
ideas or events (as in the symphonic poems of the German composer Richard Strauss),
