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

ABSTRACT: 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. Investigating cultural-socio-economic factors that might be associated with between-country differences in music preferences can facilitate music information retrieval, contribute to the prediction of users' music preferences, and improve music recommendation in cross-country contexts. However, previous literature provides limited empirical evidence of the relationships between possible cross-country differences on a wide range of socio-economic aspects and those in music preferences. To bridge this

SUBMITTER: Liu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294554 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature