Exploring the difference and similarities between Language and Music, this article explores how some things are similar, such as local variants of music (creoles in a way), and how some things are different, such as the ecological functions in human life.

Across societies, music can be found in tandem with infant care, healing, dance, and love (among many others, like mourning, warfare, processions, and ritual), as found in 315 societies and 118 songs from 86 cultures, coming from 30 geographic regions.