Turbofolk - of forbidden fruit to the mainstream:research on musical taste among Zadar high school students Cover Image

Turbofolk – od zabranjenog voća do mainstreama: istraživanje glazbenog ukusa zadarskih srednjoškolaca
Turbofolk - of forbidden fruit to the mainstream:research on musical taste among Zadar high school students

Author(s): Sven Marcelić, Krešimir Krolo, Željka Tonković
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Centar za alternativno društveno i kulturno delovanje
Keywords: turbofolk; komercijalizacija; konzervativnost; Zadar i Zadarska županija; srednjoškolci

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show, on an example of high school students of the final years in Zadar and Zadar County, the socio-cultural context which influences the formation of musical taste, which involves listening to turbo-folk. Results of a study that was carried out in late 2014 on a sample of 866 students of all types of secondary schools in Zadar and Biograd, are shown and commented. In order to examine the preferences towards turbo-folk, bivariate statistical analysis were conducted, examining the relevance of the various socio-demographic, socio-economic and socio-cultural variables. It turns out that the best predictors for listening to turbo-folk are sex, attending religious ceremonies, religiosity and intolerance toward homosexuality and generally conservative and traditional values. From being politically antagonized, turbo-folk becomes commercialized hybrid genre. The importance of embodied cultural capital is emphasised, while the socio-economic context, also institutionalized and objectified cultural capital, do not appear to be significant predictors for listening to turbo-folk.

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 80-91
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Croatian