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To achieve peace in the world, we need to understand that we are all one human family. As Martin Luther King said, ” We must all learn to live together as brothers – or we will all perish together as fools. This is the great issue facing us today. No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone. We are tied together.”

He was echoing the words of another great preacher who lived in another era: John Donne: “No man is an island, entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. . . Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”

As one family, we need to speak the same language, and one way that is possible is through music, since music can be considered as the universal language.

Here are the articles in CPNN since 2015 that illustrate how music functions to unite us across all language barriers. For discussion and articles prior to 2015, click here.

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