Music for change

Music has changed over the centuries. Where words don't speak, music speaks. Throughout history, music has been used for healing and medicine in all cultures. Every culture recognizes the importance of making and listening to music. Like Beethoven and Mozart, there are many composers and singers who revolutionized the art of music. Have you ever listened to a classical song and thought, "I've heard it!" It is believed to have been composed by Mozart, a genius musician. Even if you haven't heard of him, you may have heard his music. In popular culture, the "Mozart effect" refers to the claim that listening to Mozart's music improves your overall intelligence (IQ). The term has also been used to describe the apparent health benefits of listening to music, including benefits for people suffering from anxiety, hypertension, and epilepsy. This led people to believe that listening to music makes them smarter. But that was an oversimplification and exaggeration of the results. Subsequent studies have shown that listening to music doesn't make you smarter, it actually increases your enjoyment, reduces stress, improves concentration, and can even improve your test scores. It doesn't automatically improve performance, but it can help in situations where you need to focus on new tasks, increase alertness, or reduce stress. Music has accompanied us through our happiest times, as well as our loneliest and worst times. It has become a universal expression and a common denominator among people. It crosses all boundaries of communication because you can talk and tell stories with someone on the other side of the world, even if you don't speak the same language. Music stimulates the mind and inspires our creativity. Creative minds are capable of making discoveries and generating innovation. Great minds and thinkers such as Albert Einstein, Mozart, Frank Lloyd Wright have always had in common the exploration of imagination and creativity. Music is very engaging in the classroom and is a great memorization tool. If more teachers used a song to teach multiplication tables, children would remember this information faster. Another important factor is the extent to which music influences society and thus human behavior. The influence of music on human rights movements and its role as an instrument of change are evident in the history books. Examples include the influence of the Civil Rights Movement's "Freedom Songs" such as "We Shall Overcome" and "Strange Fruit". These songs helped break down barriers, educate people, build empathy across divisions, and end segregation. Music today continues to shine a light on the inequalities that people around the world are experiencing, and it is clear that music will never cease to serve as a vehicle for change. Music has the power to bring communities together and inspire people to change the world the way they are living and move forward in a better way or simply just to relax and meditate.

Sanjna Christina Xavier,

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