Music Unifies The Brain

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When you were telling us about this movie we were going to watch I was thinking to myself how much of music can actually be a form of protest and the movie looks old so how can it be any good. By the end of the movie I was very interested in realizing that music had a huge effect on the past as well as it does in the present time. I believe that the thesis of this movie was to tell stories about the better view of civil rights and how the life was for many workers during this time. I think that this movie did a great job of accomplishing its thesis. One of the most interesting thing that I learned for the movie was that music unifies the brain. Numerous singers wanted their music to be a representation of what was going on and how people

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