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Music
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Music is a basic human activity, created, performed, and experienced by people in all world cultures. Although not always called “music”—a term associated in many societies with public, sexual, and decadent performance practices—all cultures differentiate and value certain sounds and sound structures over others and use them in a variety of contexts to express cultural and individual values.... ...Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.
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