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Types of Music Listeners

Chan and Goldthorpe (2010) proposed the division of music listeners into 3 main categories, according to the ways people consume cultural products. Those who belong to the first type are called ‘univores’, which means that they listen only to certain low-brow music, such as pop and rock. On the contrary, the second type, ‘omnivores’, prefer different high-brow genres of music: they listen to operas, classical music, jazz, as well as pop and rock. In addition to this basic division, authors claim that music listeners can be categorised into ‘univore-listeners’, that is those who only listen to music without attending concerts and other musical events.

References: Chan, T. W., & Goldthorpe, J. (2010). Social Stratification of Cultural in Three Domains: Music; Theatre, Dance and Cinema; and the Visual Arts . В T. W. Chan, Social Status and Cultural Consumption (стр. 204-231). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.