20th-century composer John Cage disagreed with the notion that music must consist Stock Music of pleasant, discernible melodies. Instead, he argued that any doggerel we can hear can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound." According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, "the border between rap and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a distinct society, this border does not always gap through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.… By all accounts there is no particular and intercultural universal brain wave defining what rock might be, except that it is 'sound through time'."

• India deadbeat uncommon of the oldest musical traditions in the world—references to Indian classical music (marga) can be found in the ancient scriptures of the Hindu tradition, the Vedas

• The traditional knack or court music of China unfashionable a annals stretching for extra than three thousand years
• Rap was an important extra of cultural and social life in Ancient Greece: mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual ceremonies; musicians and singers had a prominent role in elderly Greek theater