Dr Michael Walsh is a sociologist at the University of Canberra. I asked Michael how sociology explains our musical preferences, what our preferences say about us, and about the future of music in a market-driven, high-tech world. Don't forget to check out the show notes at http://www.politicalscience.com.au/2017/10/on-our-taste-in-music-and-sociological.html.

#7: Our Taste in Music: Sociological Explanations

Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT MRSN @FlaneurPolitiq publishes The Political Flaneur (ISSN 2652-8851), a news and political commentary website. He is the Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent for The Spectator Australia, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Government at the University of Canberra. Michael is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon where he received the Brigadier Urquhart Trophy (Royal Australian Artillery Prize). All opinions are the author's own.

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