Posted on 09/14/2006 11:46:29 AM PDT by weegee
Music taste 'linked to drug use'
Club music fans are more likely to take drugs, the study says
More than a quarter of classical music fans have tried cannabis, says a study from the University of Leicester.
Researchers were trying to find out what people's taste in music revealed about their lifestyles.
They discovered that fans of every style of music had taken drugs, with those who preferred DJ-based club music topping the list.
The study also revealed that blues buffs are the most likely to have received a driving penalty.
Mild-mannered fans
More than 2,500 people were interviewed for the study, which is published in the scientific journal Psychology of Music.
They answered questions on their living arrangements, political beliefs, education, work and pastimes.
Fans of musicals come out as the most mild-mannered group, with the lowest level of drug-taking and criminal acts.
They also drink less regularly than other music fans, and are among the most likely to do charity work.
34% of fans of musicals like Grease do regular charity work
But followers of hip hop and dance music are more likely to have had multiple sex partners over the last five years and were among the biggest drug-takers surveyed.
"It comes out in the study that, in these types of music, fans score worse in various behaviours, such as criminality, sexual promiscuity and drug use," said Dr Adrian North, who led the research.
"It was shown that this had nothing to do with their ethnic backgrounds," he added. "The behaviour was linked purely to musical taste in its own right."
The study did reveal links between education and musical preferences.
People with a PhD or Masters degree are more likely to enjoy opera, jazz, blues or classical music.
Hip-hop fans were the most likely to have attended a fee-paying school.
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Musical taste also proved indicative of financial status, with fans of adult pop and classical music the most well-off.
They are even more likely to pay off their credit card bills each month than the less solvent fans of hip-hop, rap, dance and club music.
The report's authors acknowledge that some of these findings are related to age and social class.
To paint a more accurate picture of how musical tastes correlate with people's lifestyles, they are now seeking to expand their survey on a global scale.
They hope to recruit 10,000 interviewees on their website for further research, which is being funded by the British Academy.
"We want to paint the first worldwide picture of who likes what," said Dr North.
Where's the Captain Obvious picture?
What next, are they gonna tell me rap musicians are more likely to be killed in a gang related incident.
So have 100% of reggae fans.
My favorite reggae record: "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown" by Augustus Pablo.
Berlioz's Symphonie fantanstique = the first stoner music in the modern Western tradition
The symphony is a piece of program music which tells the story of "an artist gifted with a lively imagination" who has "poisoned himself with opium" in the "depths of despair" because of "hopeless love." There are five movements, which was unconventional for a symphony at the time:
"Leonard Bernstein called this symphony the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature, and because history suggests Berlioz composed at least a portion of it under the influence of opium."
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_Fantastique#Importance
I didn't know Leo felt the same way. Leo was a great conductor, but in my mind his music left much to be desired.
* Music taste 'linked to drug use'
* More than a quarter of classical music fans have tried cannabis
* The study also revealed that blues buffs are the most likely to have received a driving penalty.
* Fans of musicals come out as the most mild-mannered group, with the lowest level of drug-taking and criminal acts.
* They also drink less regularly than other music fans, and are among the most likely to do charity work.
* 34% of fans of musicals like Grease do regular charity work
* But followers of hip hop and dance music are more likely to have had multiple sex partners over the last five years and were among the biggest drug-takers surveyed.
* People with a PhD or Masters degree are more likely to enjoy opera, jazz, blues or classical music.
* Hip-hop fans were the most likely to have attended a fee-paying school.
* They are even more likely to pay off their credit card bills each month than the less solvent fans of hip-hop, rap, dance and club music.
All THIS from a 2500 person 'study' ??? GEEZ !!!!
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