#Muziek is a truly universal language.
Every culture enjoys music and song, and those songs serve many different purposes: guiding a dance, calming a baby or expressing love. Now, after analyzing recordings from around the world, researchers show that vocal songs that share one of those many features look alike regardless of the culture they come from.
Connection between form and function in vocalization
In the animal kingdom, there are connections between form and function in vocalization. For example, when a lion roars or an eagle screams, it sounds hostile to naive human listeners. But it was not clear whether the same concept was used in human songs. Many people believe that music is usually shaped by culture, causing them to question the relationship between form and function in music.
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