The relation of culture, socio-economics, and friendship to music preferences: A large-scale, cross-country study.

Music listening is an inherently cultural behavior, which may be shaped by users' backgrounds and contextual characteristics. Due to geographical, socio-economic, linguistic, and cultural factors as well as friendship networks, users in different countries may have different music preferences....

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Main Authors: Meijun Liu, Xiao Hu, Markus Schedl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208186