Musical taste, employment, education, and global region.

Sociologists have argued that musical taste should vary between social groups, but have not considered whether the effect extends beyond taste into uses of music and also emotional reactions to music. Moreover, previous research has ignored the culture in which participants are located. The present...

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Main Authors: North, Adrian, Davidson, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38002
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description Sociologists have argued that musical taste should vary between social groups, but have not considered whether the effect extends beyond taste into uses of music and also emotional reactions to music. Moreover, previous research has ignored the culture in which participants are located. The present research employed a large sample from five post-industrial global regions and showed that musical taste differed between regions but not according to education and employment; and that there were three-way interactions between education, employment, and region in the uses to which participants put music and also their typical emotional reactions. In addition to providing partial support for existing sociological theory, the findings highlight the potential of culture as a variable in future quantitative research on taste.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-380022017-09-13T14:13:04Z Musical taste, employment, education, and global region. North, Adrian Davidson, J. Sociologists have argued that musical taste should vary between social groups, but have not considered whether the effect extends beyond taste into uses of music and also emotional reactions to music. Moreover, previous research has ignored the culture in which participants are located. The present research employed a large sample from five post-industrial global regions and showed that musical taste differed between regions but not according to education and employment; and that there were three-way interactions between education, employment, and region in the uses to which participants put music and also their typical emotional reactions. In addition to providing partial support for existing sociological theory, the findings highlight the potential of culture as a variable in future quantitative research on taste. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38002 10.1111/sjop.12065 Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. restricted
spellingShingle North, Adrian
Davidson, J.
Musical taste, employment, education, and global region.
title Musical taste, employment, education, and global region.
title_full Musical taste, employment, education, and global region.
title_fullStr Musical taste, employment, education, and global region.
title_full_unstemmed Musical taste, employment, education, and global region.
title_short Musical taste, employment, education, and global region.
title_sort musical taste, employment, education, and global region.
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38002