This reading was very interesting to me, in the ways that we as humans communicate versus other species in the animal kingdom. We think that because we use language to communicate that we are better and know more than other species, when this could not be more false. Other animals know how to coexist in nature without disturbing its balance and can achieve communication in ways that we could never understand. Their world is simply hidden to us in a way that is in plain site and yet so out of reach. Humans also have a need for creativity and expression that other species do not, there has been no human civilization that has existed that did not have some form of music. We use music to connect with one another and as an experience on inherent pleasure. I disagree with the article that music today is simply background noise, I think that many people still focus on music and intensely and simply listen to it without doing anything else. I think that today music is becoming more creative than other with the popularity of the internet, there no longer needs to be one mainstream culture of music that everyone listens to, because the availability of music is so easy and the range of music that exists so wide, there is much more new and acclectic music to discover than ever before. Everyone is able to form their own unique taste in music and being into the top 40 hits is often looked down upon because there is so much better stuff out there.
