ABSTRACT
It seems that people like to listen to music and to dance! Although we have no means for
documenting with numbers or other data that this is true the world over (a cross-cultural
universal?), we presume that most would agree. The unassailable fact that people
worldwide like to listen to music and dance, in itself, is not so interesting with regard to
considerations of culture, thought, and development. It becomes quite interesting for the
topics of this volume, we believe, if we consider two examples that reveal the extent
people go to to listen to music and to dance in certain social contexts.
