As the band marches down the field, the football team begin to listen and feel encouraged by the melodies of the song playing, helping them win the game. In our world today, music has greatly affected culture in many ways. Some of these ways include increasing brain activity and affecting emotions.

Music has been proven to be one of the few things that use the whole brain, thus allowing a person to think more often and efficiently. For example, a stressed college student is in the middle of his piles of homework. She then later decides to listen to one of her favorite songs by Maroon 5, and is able to finish her homework while still maintaining her sleep schedule. In addition, a jogger begins to grow bored and tired in the middle of his jog, so he pulls his iPod out of his pocket and plugs in his ear phones. After listening to his favorite song, he feels a sudden rush of energy and is able to complete his jog, bringing him one step closer to his goal. Therefore, music can affect our brain activity by raising it’s speed and increasing focus.

Music can greatly affect one’s emotions depending on the emotion of the song. For example, a depressed man loses his job after a huge dedication to it. After listening to a few songs that have a high and happy melody, he is no longer sad and begins looking for a new job. In addition, a tired hard working student has just returned from his job and decides to listen to a song full of energy. Suddenly, he has a jump of energy and begins to do all the work around the house that is needed to receive his allowance. Therefore, music can raise one’s emotions and increase elation towards a subject.

Just like a football player who is inspired by the marching band’s music, music can affect our culture today through emotions and brain activity. Therefore, music is able to increase emotion and respect in a culture through many unknown ways.