Disrupted routines anticipate musical exploration.

ABSTRACT: Understanding and predicting the emergence and evolution of cultural tastes manifested in consumption patterns is of central interest to social scientists, analysts of culture, and purveyors of content. Prior research suggests that taste preferences relate to personality traits, values, shifts in mood, and immigration destination. Understanding everyday patterns of listening and the function music plays in life has remained elusive, however, despite speculation that musical nostalgia may compensate for local disruption. Using more than one hundred million streams of four million songs by tens of thousands of international listeners from a global music service, we show that breaches in personal routine are systematically associated with personal musical exploration. As people visited new ci

SUBMITTER: Kim K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10861857 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature