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  Evolution of Music Samuel Kim 300 Words In this story I would like to share the origin of music and how it has impacted humanity ever since. From the primitive days of mankind, music has become the keystone of every culture in existence. Dating as far as 43,000 years ago, archaeologists have found that there were instruments like flutes made from bone and ivory. If flutes were made back then, then before instruments were songs from the voices of primitive men and women, who knows what the songs these people of the past have sang. There have been many civilizations that started and ended but music can be recovered. From the Ancient Chinese dynasties to countries like Egypt, India, and Mesopotamia, music had still been prevalent, inspiring other countries and civilizations to have music. Religion plays a good part in music, with Buddhism having chants that are still sung to this day as well as Hebrew songs and Gregorian chants. Christianity grew as a religion, Europe was forever ch...

  The topic for my proposed idea for the syllabus would be exploring the impact of minority music in American history as well as the various artists and musicians that helped shape up or be the face of entire genres. I had come up with this idea after researching The Golden Record from the famous Voyager 1 spacecraft . I thought it would be a great topic to write about since NASA had collaborated with Carl Sagan to create the record along with Dr. Sagan's wife. I really love the fact that an EP vinyl had been launched into space as a message for extraterrestrial kind. As a massive space enthusiast and all things out of this world, I had always pondered upon the possibilities of life on other planets. I genuinely appreciate how the record contains various cultures around the world to add in order to explain to the hypothetical life forms who we humans are, how many we are, what we do, what we are made of, what other life forms exist, the sounds and looks of Earth and its inhabitants...