Het patroon van de popmuziek. De vier dimensies van jeugdstijlen

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Since the 1950s, the cultural diversity of teenage lifestyles organized around popular music has grown. Old ideas of cultural style as expressions of taste & corresponding social class have disappeared. However, analysis of questionnaire data from 712 Dutch youths, using PRINCALS (acronym not defined) scaling techniques instead of traditional factor analysis, shows that musical preferences for 19 musical genres can be ordered along 4 dimensions: (1) traditional vs modern; (2) high vs low culture; (3) stalwartness vs sensitivity; & (4) youth centrism. The first two dimensions correlate strongly with the variables of gender & class, while the latter two relate to strategies to retrieve a personal identity from the compelling force of tradition. The changing balance among the dimensions leads to the interpretation of rock music as an arena for the struggle for new types of identity. 2 Tables, 3 Figures, 50 References. Adapted from the source document.