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Are Americans' Musical Preferences More Omnivores Today?

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Jordi López-Sintas
Anna Torres ()
Konstantina Zerva

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Although we found a general trend favouring the omnivorousness thesis, as soon as we adjusted it to a set of structural factors and consumers’ tastes it was clear that this was caused by elitist inclusive omnivores who had increased the scope of their tastes. In general, younger cohorts were becoming less omnivorous, nevertheless, they were also becoming more educated and had greater to higher levels of inc ome, making the youth more omnivorous. As expected, upscale consumers set limits on their popular taste: musical genres, whose audiences had educational levels below the mean profile were less preferred by upscale respondents. In spite of this, as time passed, some popular brows gained social status.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in its series Economics Working Papers with number 963.

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Keywords: Symbolic consumer research; musical tastes; omnivorousness; correspondence analysis of matched matrices;

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C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
Z11 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economics of the Arts and Literature

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  1. Holbrook, Morris B & Schindler, Robert M, 1989. " Some Exploratory Findings on the Development of Musical Tastes," Journal of Consumer Research: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, University of Chicago Press, vol. 16(1), pages 119-24, June.
  2. Holbrook, Morris B, 1993. " Nostalgia and Consumption Preferences: Some Emerging Patterns of Consumer Tastes," Journal of Consumer Research: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, University of Chicago Press, vol. 20(2), pages 245-56, September.
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