Hi all, I am currently working on a Thesis about Musical Preferences and the connection to personality, if you could spare 30 seconds to fill out a little survey it would help me out a lot, thanks, [www.surveymonkey.com]

That was fun!

One thing struck me as potentially problematic in tabulating the data. R&B, one the genres listed, could be interpreted by the survey respondent either as old school R&B or new school R&B. The two are 180 degrees different, and attract a radically different audience and (I would posit) personality type. (Similar situation, although less extreme, for Country.) Old school R&B is soulful and mellow. New R&B is manic and brash.

For what school, degree, and discipline are you writing this thesis? Hope you'll share the results

- swiss

Yeah, I didn't know whether it meant «rhythm & beats» (today's r&b) or «rhythm & blues». Could affect my answers, I'm afraid

'rhythm & beats'?

....are there any prizes for doing the survey ?



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'rhythm & beats'?

That's r&b today, unfortunately..

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Hi all, I am currently working on a Thesis about Musical Preferences and the connection to personality, if you could spare 30 seconds to fill out a little survey it would help me out a lot, thanks, [www.surveymonkey.com]

Q 11: Do you like Mick Taylor ?

question 9 (income) is very nation-influenced. If you're looking for an international survey, it's even irrelevant I'd say.

Not sure what you're going to gleam from these 10 questions but what the hey...

Done... The vagueness of R&B made it a stumbling block for me. I'm a huge fan of one type of R&B while I really don't care much at all for another. I used the "Other" category to represent "Soul & Funk".

Hope you get an "A" on your thesis!

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Reggae, Calypso, etc. may have deserved it's own category, or maybe a 'World Music' category.

I pretty much prefer good music. I particularly prefer great music. I'm OK with fairly good music most of the time; I really am not that into mediocre or bad music. Highly stratified and uber-demographied generally narrow approaches to music appreciation thru charting and media push-projects does not particuarly engage me.

Please add a reggae column.

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I pretty much prefer good music. I particularly prefer great music. I'm OK with fairly good music most of the time; I really am not that into mediocre or bad music. Highly stratified and uber-demographied generally narrow approaches to music appreciation thru charting and media push-projects does not particuarly engage me.

I think what you're getting at is not all music falls into a particular category.

I have this discussion with my son all the time when he asks "is this hard rock or heavy metal". I tell him not everything fits into a particular genre, and it doesn't really matter if it's good and you like it.

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I pretty much prefer good music. I particularly prefer great music. I'm OK with fairly good music most of the time; I really am not that into mediocre or bad music. Highly stratified and uber-demographied generally narrow approaches to music appreciation thru charting and media push-projects does not particuarly engage me.

I think what you're getting at is not all music falls into a particular category.

I have this discussion with my son all the time when he asks "is this hard rock or heavy metal". I tell him not everything fits into a particular genre, and it doesn't really matter if it's good and you like it.

That is true kovach, but also this:

Take a question such as "Do you listen to metal"?
I listen to some of it, but definitely not all of it, and there's so many categories within it that it can't really be labelled under a single category.
Same goes for the rap or hip hop question.
And the same goes for any category really.

Do you listen to country?
Yes, the classic stuff ala Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle, etc., etc., etc., but I say hell no to most contemporary/modern country music

And within each of those artists/bands I do like, there's stuff from them I don't like - the Rolling Stones would be a perfect example of this.

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Hi all, I am currently working on a Thesis about Musical Preferences and the connection to personality, if you could spare 30 seconds to fill out a little survey it would help me out a lot, thanks, [www.surveymonkey.com]

some advice from a professional point of view: If your are interessted in musical tastes in relation to class background (in your survey operationalized as income) you should read Bourdieus field theory and add some questions about other aesthetic preferences (art, clothing, maybe food) to your survey. A question on educational background seems to be necessary too.
I you focus on personality three rather simple questions is not too much…

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I pretty much prefer good music. I particularly prefer great music. I'm OK with fairly good music most of the time; I really am not that into mediocre or bad music. Highly stratified and uber-demographied generally narrow approaches to music appreciation thru charting and media push-projects does not particuarly engage me.

I think what you're getting at is not all music falls into a particular category.

I have this discussion with my son all the time when he asks "is this hard rock or heavy metal". I tell him not everything fits into a particular genre, and it doesn't really matter if it's good and you like it.

That is true kovach, but also this:

Take a question such as "Do you listen to metal"?
I listen to some of it, but definitely not all of it, and there's so many categories within it that it can't really be labelled under a single category.
Same goes for the rap or hip hop question.
And the same goes for any category really.

Do you listen to country?
Yes, the classic stuff ala Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle, etc., etc., etc., but I say hell no to most contemporary/modern country music

And within each of those artists/bands I do like, there's stuff from them I don't like - the Rolling Stones would be a perfect example of this.

Agree 100%.

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lapaz62
Hi all, I am currently working on a Thesis about Musical Preferences and the connection to personality, if you could spare 30 seconds to fill out a little survey it would help me out a lot, thanks, [www.surveymonkey.com]

Q 11: Do you like Mick Taylor ?

Q 12: Do you like Mick Jagger's new singles ?

did I win the grand prize?

What about new wave/ post- punk?

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That was fun!

One thing struck me as potentially problematic in tabulating the data. R&B, one the genres listed, could be interpreted by the survey respondent either as old school R&B or new school R&B. The two are 180 degrees different, and attract a radically different audience and (I would posit) personality type. (Similar situation, although less extreme, for Country.) Old school R&B is soulful and mellow. New R&B is manic and brash.

For what school, degree, and discipline are you writing this thesis? Hope you'll share the results

- swiss

Yes. I meant new R&B, old country and new country etc, it was just impossible to put so many genres and sub genres into a survey, if it was too big, nobody would be bothered to finish it, so I made it as small as possible to get some of the information that I need. It is for an Audio Engineering degree, the last subject is a thesis and it's all over, YAY.

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Hi all, I am currently working on a Thesis about Musical Preferences and the connection to personality, if you could spare 30 seconds to fill out a little survey it would help me out a lot, thanks, [www.surveymonkey.com]

Q 11: Do you like Mick Taylor ?

Answer to question 11 is, Hell Yeah.

I couldn't get past question 2.

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I pretty much prefer good music. I particularly prefer great music. I'm OK with fairly good music most of the time; I really am not that into mediocre or bad music. Highly stratified and uber-demographied generally narrow approaches to music appreciation thru charting and media push-projects does not particuarly engage me.

I think what you're getting at is not all music falls into a particular category.

I have this discussion with my son all the time when he asks "is this hard rock or heavy metal". I tell him not everything fits into a particular genre, and it doesn't really matter if it's good and you like it.

That is true kovach, but also this:

Take a question such as "Do you listen to metal"?
I listen to some of it, but definitely not all of it, and there's so many categories within it that it can't really be labelled under a single category.
Same goes for the rap or hip hop question.
And the same goes for any category really.

Do you listen to country?
Yes, the classic stuff ala Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle, etc., etc., etc., but I say hell no to most contemporary/modern country music

And within each of those artists/bands I do like, there's stuff from them I don't like - the Rolling Stones would be a perfect example of this.

Agree 100%.

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lapaz62
Hi all, I am currently working on a Thesis about Musical Preferences and the connection to personality, if you could spare 30 seconds to fill out a little survey it would help me out a lot, thanks, [www.surveymonkey.com]

some advice from a professional point of view: If your are interessted in musical tastes in relation to class background (in your survey operationalized as income) you should read Bourdieus field theory and add some questions about other aesthetic preferences (art, clothing, maybe food) to your survey. A question on educational background seems to be necessary too.
I you focus on personality three rather simple questions is not too much…

Nice tip, thank you. Most of the stuff that I am reading revolves around Myers Briggs and the Big-Five on personality types and preferences. I should have included educational level, where you live, job etc, but a big questionnaire turns many off.

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Hi all, I am currently working on a Thesis about Musical Preferences and the connection to personality, if you could spare 30 seconds to fill out a little survey it would help me out a lot, thanks, [www.surveymonkey.com]

Where else are you posting links to the Survey ?

The results you get around here might differ somewhat from those sourced from other demographics .

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