The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: The Power Of Music

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Music is an empowering, compelling and impactful part of life today and is very important to our society, this will likely be the case far into the future. Music isn’t only important to our society, it is well-valued in many cultures. Worldwide, music is enjoyed by different cultures, religions, and ethnic groups. Music is a powerful and important piece of art throughout our history, religion, and people's well-being. Music is a compelling piece of historical expression connected to our history. History can be defined in multiple ways, history can be its events from the past, although it is also part of human culture. Cultural expression is when a culture expresses its likeness and differences, sometimes through art, performances, or handicrafts but most …show more content…

The band and artist Robbie Robertson demonstrate this perfectly through their song, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”. This song describes the last year of the American Civil War, 1969. This is just one example, there is a plentiful amount of other historical songs about important and impactful cultures and historical events. Music is very crucial when it comes to religion. In most religions, such as Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and many others, music plays an important role. Being important to most religions, music is a useful tool for worship. The majority of religions, like the ones listed before, use music as a way to engage in worship. Hymns, often used instead of typical music, are a subset of songs, even so, they are still a type of music. The Bible mentions music in multiple places, but in Samuel 16:23, an evil spirit was upon Saul. So David took his harp and played for him until the evil spirit departed. All said, this proves why music is important to religions. Finally, the positive effects that music has on people. Music has been proven to help people in lots of different

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