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Music speaks a universal language. It is an art form that is common to all cultures and helps bringing people together from all over the world by eradicating their differences. Consider the example of the Indian sitar maestro Pundit Ravi Shankar collaborating with the British rock sensation The Beatles.
Also, music is an ever popular art form; people still continue listening to Mozart and Beethoven even in the twenty first century. Also, musical tastes do not confirm to any one particular culture. An Englishman can enjoy jazz music of Duke Ellington as much as any Indian would like to listen and enjoy the flamenco music of Paco de Lucia. A lot of American bands in the sixties like The Beatles and
The Doors were influenced by eastern sounds. Music has also become an important tool of protest. A lot of American folk singers used music as a form of protest against the American war in Vietnam. These protest singers like Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and Joan Baez became worldwide icons of peace. There protest songs were not only relevant to the then American scenario but are sung even now.
Music plays an important role in other visual arts like cinema and the opera. Such was the impact of music on the masses that a whole new genre of films, called musicals, was born catering to the popular demand. Music played a major role as against plot, Sound of Music became a raging international success, while people like Fred Astaire became stars overnight.