MUSIC IN OUR LIVES (as submitted to Planetary Magazine)

Submitted by Luciana Pimentel on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 10:43:39 AM EST.

Music can bring positive effects on the functioning of the brain in young people and can offer educational and developmental benefits. It is important for everybody to have a real connection with music.
Every person should have the ability to perform, to create and to listen to music. Every student should have access to a comprehensive, balanced and sequential program of music study in school.
Starting studying music at an early age is important, because it helps students to achieve their potential. Musical potential is one of the basic abilities that every person has.
At school, music can even prevent dropouts by providing opportunities of success to some students who have difficulty at other subjects in the curriculum.
Besides being beneficial, music can also bring pleasure to people. Using the Internet, for example, music can be downloaded. But this downloading can bring problems because various music industry artists and record labels believe that it creates a way for unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material.
On the one hand, this situation can be considered wrong because singers lose money, but, on the other hand, CDs are very expensive and some artists are only worried about money and control.


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