Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
5-1957
Publication Source
American Journal of Sociology
Volume
62
Issue
6
Start Page
563
Last Page
568
Abstract
Preferences in popular music among teen-age girls vary according to the neighborhood in which a girl lives and her relative popularity among her peers. Highly popular girls are shown to conform more closely than the less popular to the prevailing neighborhood norms in popular music. Musical tastes and preferences for particular songs and for particular disk jockeys are found to be anchored in relatively small groups of friends, suggesting that personal relations play an important role in musical fads and fashions.
Copyright/Permission Statement
© 1957 University of Chicago Press at http://www.jstor.org/stable/2773131
Keywords
popular music, tastes, youth culture
Recommended Citation
Johnstone, J., & Katz, E. (1957). Youth and Popular Music: A Study in the Sociology of Taste. American Journal of Sociology, 62 (6), 563-568. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/155
Date Posted: 24 February 2010
This document has been peer reviewed.