It is widely accepted that a shift has occurred in the cultural consumption patterns of those higher in the social strata. Where tastes were based around rules of exclusion, they are now based on openness to a variety of cultures, both esoteric and popular.
What is less understood is how an individual’s social networks affect their cultural tastes. Using social survey data on cultural participation, we find that musical consumption is mediated and construed through networks, and these networks play a much more significant role in cultural behaviour than current theoretical frameworks suggest.
History
School
Social Sciences
Department
Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Volume
32
Pages
41 - 66
Citation
WIDDOP, P. and LEGUINA, A., 2015. With a little help from my friends: music consumption and networks. Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2015: Thematic Number, pp.41-66.
Publisher
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Version
VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Acceptance date
2014-12-22
Publication date
2015
Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto and is also available at http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/Sociologia/article/view/1918.