People from just about every cultural background use lullabies to soothe babies, write love songs to express romantic feelings, and dance together in synchrony. Human song is used to facilitate specific psychological and social functions in ways that can make music a universal language, according to a new study from Harvard University.
Dance songs dissolve differences that divide us
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