Is Music Just Distraction

Is music really just a “distraction” or is there more to this lifelong custom that has only grown and developed through the centuries? Music has been around for centuries and has been used for several purposes, including religion, battle songs, and poetic justice. Music has been known for the entertaining concerts and its uses for self-expression, but recent studies have shown that it may improve your health as well. Music is not just huge illuminated concerts and hanging out with friends on a saturday night. Several of studies have found that music can benefit your health as well. Music activates certain parts of the brain such as the motor cortex and corpus callosum along with stimulating the production of alpha and theta waves in the brain. “Big bursts of alpha brain waves induce creativity. Similarly, theta brainwaves are associated with the process of dreaming, states of enhanced creativity, learning, and relaxation.” as confirmed by Robert Zatorre and his fellow colleagues.
With young adults flooding these concerts weekly, It is safe to say that music still serves among the top dogs as an entertainment. This world would not be the same without music. Music helps people express their feelings and it helps relieve stress. The positives outway the negatives, if any negatives in the first place. People want to use music as a distraction so they can ban headphones in schools and even some workplaces. If music is such a big distraction, then why does almost every car being manufactured come installed with the newest radio technologies? I also wrote this whole essay while listening to music. To many people, music is a freedom of expression and to take that away from a person is to take away a part of their