Musical taste shaped by wealth and education, UBC study finds

According to the UBC survey, heavy metals and raps are popular among low-income people, classical music, jazz music, pop music are popular among wealthy people.

Regardless of Metallica, Miles Davis, Beyonce, you can succeed from your sound and your musical preference may pay more attention to you than you think.

According to Gerry Veenstra, a professor at the Department of Sociology at UBC, the social class plays an important role in shaping music that people like and dislikes.

His research report at the Canadian Sociology Review covered approximately 1600 telephone interviews in Vancouver and Toronto.

He discovered that people receiving low-income education tend to prefer villages, discos, hearing, gold old, heavy metals, rap.

Wealthy people tend to like blues, chorus, classical, jazz, musical, opera, pop, reggae, rock, world international.

Mr. Veenstra added, "I believe that they are familiar to most of us as they belong to the Natural degree program," he added. Gender, race, and age also influence the kind of music.

However, even if someone grows poverty and eventually becomes millions, it will not change the kind of music he or she chooses to listen.

"Music that you liked during the formation of your life ... you shape what you like and may stay in your present life."

When asked if he noticed the hobbies of Toronto people and Vancouver music people are different, he said that the people in Toronto are more self-righteous. Although they tend to prefer rap, opera and heavy metal, they are particularly classic and popular, they are easy to hear and do not like the locks of Vancouver people.

Listen to the complete interview with Professor Gerry Veenstra of UBC and listen to music like music made by that class.

If you prefer to listen to your favorite jam at work and find yourself singing together, it may be time to begin experimenting with classical music. why? Research on how music gathers attention has found that lyrics concerts distract from the work environment - this makes sense. If your brain has to concentrate on what the music says, it will reduce your ability to focus on the task in front of you. Studies focused on IT professional output showed that music improves mood and therefore helps listeners come up with better ideas and tasks faster. The important point here is that the type of music is left to individual choice. Conclusion: You know best about what type of music can help you concentrate. This is different day by day, tasks are different.

The concept of music, medicine and cultural hobbies lies at the center of research of art and music sociology. In the case of Bourdieu, the taste is the tendency and ability to adapt (either physically or symbolically) to specific classes and customs (1984: 173). By classifying hobbies, the distinction between cultural forms shapes behavioral and legal social differences and makes knowledge of cultural objects to represent the form of capital (Bourdieu 1984; DiMaggio and Useem 1978). But the capital of culture is