When investigating relational structures in culture, research in Europe has often either mapped the relationship between cultural tastes in a particular context, or mapped differences in cultural tastes (measured consistently) in different countries, without assessing how these differences can vary across them. Indeed, the idea of national homology (namely that the structures of cultural capital would be fairly similar in nations across Europe) has never been really tested, probably due to a lack of cross-national research on cultural preferences. Using data from the EUCROSS survey that took place in Denmark, Germany, Italy, Romania, Spain and the UK (2012–2013, n = 6016), we first use multiple correspondence analysis to estimate the relationships between a set of items on musical tastes. We then extend this through the use of class-specific analysis, to investigate how these relationships vary in each of the six countries. Finally, we analyse the relationships between the underlying dimensions of music tastes and different components of cosmopolitanism, compared with key demographic variables. We show that the musical field significantly varies across the nations represented in the survey, demonstrating that musical preferences remain largely anchored in national contexts. Cultural preferences are shaped by historical and social dynamics specific to each country, with significant variations in the symbolic value and demographic associations of music genres.

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欧洲音乐偏好的分歧和趋同：国家内部和国家之间的品味如何变化


在调查文化中的关系结构时，欧洲的研究通常要么绘制特定背景下文化品味之间的关系，要么绘制不同国家文化品味的差异（一致地衡量），而没有评估这些差异在它们之间如何变化。事实上，国家同源性的概念（即欧洲各国的文化资本结构相当相似）从未真正受到检验，这可能是由于缺乏对文化偏好的跨国研究。使用在丹麦、德国、意大利、罗马尼亚、西班牙和英国进行的 EUCROSS 调查（2012-2013 年，n = 6016）的数据，我们首先使用多重对应分析来估计一组项目与音乐品味之间的关系。然后，我们通过使用针对特定类别的分析来扩展这一点，以调查这些关系在六个国家中的每一个国家是如何变化的。最后，我们分析了音乐品味的基本维度与世界主义的不同组成部分之间的关系，并与关键的人口统计变量进行了比较。我们表明，调查所代表的国家之间的音乐领域存在显著差异，这表明音乐偏好在很大程度上仍然取决于国家背景。文化偏好受到每个国家特有的历史和社会动态的影响，音乐流派的象征价值和人口关联存在显著差异。