Musical Taste and Lifestyle

According to Meriam-Webster, the definition of music is :
"1 a: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity b: vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony
2 a: an agreeable sound"
While I agree that music is all of this, I think that music is something else, too; music is something that speaks to people, that makes people feel something. Music is in the "ear" of the beholder-- a genre that is beautiful to one person might be torture to another. I personally know people who say that rap is not music because they do not like that particular genre, but doesn't rap fulfill M-W's requirements? Just because a person does not like a certain type of music does not mean that it is not music. Music is a collection of unified sounds that is either pleasing or displeasing to the ear depending on the person. I know that I am not a fan of country music in general, but I cannot condemn every country song because each song gives the listener a new experience; one country song might have a pleasing element that another one does not. I've always found it intriguing how one person might love a song that another person absolutely hates. What makes people love or hate certain types of music? Personality? Or does it depend on where the person was brought up? Perhaps it depends on the person's lifestyle, although (especially in younger people) the type of music you like determines who you are friends with, wht you wear, etc, so I suppose in a way, music helps to decide a person's lifestyle. Thinking back on middle and high school, music really did play a huge role in determining social status, wardrobe, etc. Those who wore mostly black and had "crazy" hair and makeup usually listened to heavy metal or punk, people who wore tie-dye, head bands and the like listened to "hippie music", kids who wore preppier clothes generally listened to pop or mild rap. Alot could be said about a person by their musical taste. Although the influence of musical taste on lifestyle tends to wane as people get older, it is still quite prevalent. It's really quite amazing how much music affects people and their lives, and the variety of music to choose from.