Our study aims to test the correlation between race and musical taste in New York City. We hypothesized that the inventories of record stores would reflect the racial compositions of their surrounding neighborhoods. After comparing the demographics of three neighborhoods to the inventories of their record stores, we found a much higher rate of availability among genres typically associated with the prevailing ethnic group, suggesting that musical taste does correlate with race. Our research, however, is predicated on the assumption that the local stores primarily serve their community. Regardless, the differences in inventories suggest a correlation between musical taste and race in New York, mostly validating our original hypothesis.
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/seminar3posters/files/gravity_forms/1-f14ea90e75361cb91bd42582a860ee01/2014/12/Music-and-Race.ppt.pdf
Aissatou Diallo, Erica Kwong, Jordan Intrator, Emily Stone, Chris Rincon, J.A. Strub
Meehan, Nadler
Hunter College
Music, Race
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