Musical Stereotypes?

[oldbuckster]

DR. WHO......We knew it was in fun............Mark my words, music you say you don't like today, 25 years from now, you just might change your mind......[].....The Greatest point of all of this is...........LISTEN TO SOME KIND OF MUSIC......IT'S MAGIC................[]

[oldbuckster]

Hmmmnnnnn.....

What kinda people only listen to .... Classic Rock ....???

or if ya prefer ... Dinosaur Rock .......[]

Someday you might be LUCKY enough to meet one.........Maybe.........[:#]

[dtel]

" The problem as I see it is when you STOP getting older! "

Phil

That is the time when the number counts the most !

My son in law the other day said " I remember a really long time ago, like in the 80's " I had to laugh.

[jacksonbart]

My good buddy Tex drives a truck, talks on a CB and likes country music.

[Parrot]

Substance abuse of choice:

Country: Beer

Rock: Marijuana

Classical: Liquor

Jazz: Heroin

[oldbuckster]

Substance abuse of choice:

Country: Beer

Rock: Marijuana

Classical: Liquor

Jazz: Heroin

You are a tough old bird..........What if somebody uses it all? The mind is a terrible thing to waste............EH !!!!!!.............

[Mike Lindsey]

Substance abuse of choice:

Country: Beer

Rock: Marijuana

Classical: Liquor

Jazz: Heroin

So true... for someone like me it's tough to stereotype as I only use 3 of those... LOL

Mike

[Deang]

You shouldn't mix Heroin and Liquor Mike -- it sounds terrible.

[jackpod]

You shouldn't mix Heroin and Liquor Mike -- it sounds terrible.

If thats what it took for Skip Martin to create "Scherejazz" back in the 60's..... Rather interesting LP

[jacksonbart]

My friend Maude listens to Oprah, eats Bon Bons, and takes crystal meth.

[Parrot]

Rap: Crack.

Speaking of which, X-Rays can should the darnedest things!

http://allbleedingstops.blogspot.com/2006/09/delicate-situation.html

[oldbuckster]

Coke, Meth,and Hashish...........Think I'm safe then.....Boy, I was worried for a minute...[]

Parrot that article is unreal.......

[PhilMays]

Rap: Crack.

Speaking of which, X-Rays can should the darnedest things!

http://allbleedingstops.blogspot.com/2006/09/delicate-situation.html

Oh yea baby!!!! NOTHING LIKE MEDICAL PORN!!!!

My wife give anesthesia and the story's OMG!!!!

[CaptnBob]

Not hard to belive, except the part that I can't understand is

"Opera buffs were least likely to take showers and wash their hair"

I think I'll pass that along to our local opera maven.

[oldtimer]

This post comes from reading only the initial post and no responses. First of all, as a degree holder in music, this is a load of crap. Second of all, well, so is most psychobabble. People who like musicals? That just means they don't know blank about music. (unless it's from those delightful people responsible for South Park).

"One clear pattern" is really a pattern of the youth there in general. Oh gee, opera buffs don't take as many showers. Could it also be that they also don't get many dates? Only 8.5% of classical music lovers have PhDs? So 91.5% of PhDs do not like classical music. News flash! Music should be underrated in what it can tell us about societies and individuals. Music is intrinsic to everyone and all music shares common characteristics.

[oldtimer]

Substance abuse of choice:

Country: Beer

Rock: Marijuana

Classical: Liquor

Jazz: Heroin

You are a tough old bird..........What if somebody uses it all? The mind is a terrible thing to waste............EH !!!!!!.............

Close OB. The mind is a terrible thing. That's closer.

[sputnik]

Anyone ever trip out on Alvin and the Chipmunks after licking toads?

Just asking.

[colterphoto1]

I used to sit inside the speaker cabinets at Black Sabbath concerts and inhale Raid

[coda]

LSD, magic mushrooms?

more on Adrian North's study . .

So, what music do you like?

Created: Thursday, September 21, 2006

Madonna,

Mozart or Eminem? Your preference in music could predict the patterns

of your life, including your sexual activity, drug use, and even your

political outlook, a new British survey contends.

And it's not as predictable as you'd think. The survey of 2,500 people

found, for example, that opera fans were as likely as other music

lovers to try hallucinogenic drugs, and that many hip-hop fans had

somewhat conservative views on a wide range of issues.

While other studies of musical taste have focused on broad

demographics, "this research, as far as I am aware, is the first time

that people have looked at these really specific aspects of people's

day-to-day lives," said study author Adrian North, a senior lecturer in

psychology at the University of Leicester.

The findings are scheduled for publication in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychology of Music.

Personal selection getting easier

Recent changes in technology, such as the iPod and other devices using

downloaded music, have made personal musical selection even easier.

"People are selecting their own music to a much greater extent than

they have been able to do in the past," said Terry Pettijohn, an expert

on music and human behaviour and an associate professor of psychology

at Mercyhurst College, in Erie, Pennsylvania.

But what can your music of choice tell about the rest of the choices you make in life?

In his study, North had 2,500 Britons state their favourite musical

genre and then fill out a detailed questionnaire on topics such as

income, education, job status, living arrangements, sexual activity,

political/moral outlook, leisure pursuits and media preferences.

Hip-hop fans the wildest

Fans of hip-hop and dance music were perhaps the "wildest" group

surveyed, North said. More than 37 percent of hip-hop aficionados and

nearly 29 percent of dance music fans had had more than one sexual

partner over the past five years, compared to just 1.5 percent of

country music lovers. More than half of hip-hop and dance-music fans

said they had committed a criminal act at least once in their lifetime,

and they were also much more likely to have tried illicit drugs than

fans of other musical genres.

But there was one surprise.

"We have the idea that fans of hip-hop, rap and dance music are liberal

types," North said. "But in many respects we found they had beliefs

that were relatively right-wing."

For example, compared to people favouring other musical styles, fans of

hip-hop and dance were least likely to support recycling or alternative

sources of energy, and least likely to support the use of taxation to

expand public services.

Pettijohn said this finding may suggest a cultural difference between

the United Kingdom and the United States, since an earlier US-based

study of music and psychology found that most American hip-hop fans

were, in fact, social liberals.

And he wondered if the relative youth of those who love hip-hop and/or

dance music is the major reason behind their risk-taking behaviours.

"I'd like to see something that would show that people who like rap,

hip-hop and dance music continue to like it in their 40s, 50s and 60s,"

he said.

Not all "risk takers" did so to the rhymes of 50 Cent, however. A large

number were listening to Pavarotti or Bach, the survey showed.

Opera fans try magic mushrooms

"For example, looking at drug usage, a full 12.3 percent of opera fans

said they had tried 'magic mushrooms,'" North said. "That number wasn't

too different for fans of other types of music."

One out of every four classical and opera lovers also said they had at

least tried marijuana. They were also pretty terrible drivers: Almost

half (45 percent) had recently incurred some sort of traffic penalty,

compared to 23 percent of people who listed "musicals" as their

favourite music category.

Still, in other ways, classical music fans fit the stereotype -

compared to pop-music fans, they tended to be better-educated and make

more money, were more likely to pay off their credit card bills each

month, avoided tabloid newspapers, and more often preferred drinking

wine to other types of alcohol.

International survey launched

North agreed with Pettijohn that responses to the survey might vary

between the United Kingdom and the United States. That's why he has

launched an online survey aimed at collecting data on music and

lifestyle from people around the world (www.musicaltastetest.com).

"I hope to amass at least 10 000 responses, to get a better grasp of trends between countries," he said.

It's North's belief that music does not cause lifestyle changes, per se.

"Music answers a particular need," he said, "and certain lifestyle

choices make it more likely that people will find themselves in social

situations that then link them to musical preferences." For example,

young people with money may spend it dancing in nightclubs, which can

cause them to prefer dance music - and experiment with the illicit

drugs that are so often available at these venues.

None of that means that dance music actually encourages people to take

drugs, North said. "It's not a case of factor A causing factor B," he

added.

Preferences formed young

And while the research shows that most people form their lifetime

musical preferences between the ages of 16 and 24, none of that is

carved in stone, North added.

"Your taste can become more sophisticated as you get older," he said,

"mainly because your brain has heard more music and you are able to

process more complicated stuff."

"Still, you're not likely to shift from liking Britney Spears to Beethoven," he added. (HealthDayNews)

this article online

[jacksonbart]

Rap: Crack.

Speaking of which, X-Rays can should the darnedest things!

http://allbleedingstops.blogspot.com/2006/09/delicate-situation.html

I wish I had her number, she sounds like a fun date.