I always thought that my love of rap and opera plus mystery fiction and real literature was a result of my peasant background. But it turns out that I’m a typical rich Westerner:
Scores of studies show that individuals from educated and professional strata are more likely than low-status individuals to make diverse, or “omnivorous,” aesthetic
choices that cross boundaries, such as the divide between opera and rap music, to take but one example (Katz-Gerro 2004; Peterson 2005). This phenomenon, first
detected in the United States in a classic series of studies (e.g., Peterson and Kern 1996), appears to be characteristic of every rich Western country.Fishman, Robert M. and Omar Lizardo. “How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste: Legacies of Democratization in Spain and Portugal.” American Sociological Review 78.2 (2013): 213-39.
Hmm.
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Interesting, I’m an omnivore myself 🙂 In my music collection, I have everything from classical to jazz to all sorts of rock, metal, punk, dance and some older hip hop. I have so many books I ran out of room on my shelves and they are stacked on tables, ditto for notebooks and pens. I don’t watch much TV except for baseball, hockey, some History Channel 2 and an occasional old movie but I have a lot of documentaries on DVD. As my Dad liked to say, if you keep an open mind, you will never be bored 😀
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