Is Popular More Likeable Matthew Effect

Brady Tan

Professor Mylett

Writing 2010

13 March 2018

Music Draft Essay Music can be used to express one’s ideas, identical, culture, religious, and emotion. Music is in many ways like art because art also can be used to express ideas. Some music artists create a new genre of music. Other artists preferred to be not associated with one genre of music or any genre of music. Other artist preferred to be associated to one genre of music or a group of genre of music. There is a lot of genres of music like pop, heavy metal, etc. The genre of music can be associated with a culture, ethnic group, or era. Anyone has their own preference of music type. Everybody has their own favorite artists or groups. People have preferences on what music they

A person’s musical preference can express their own identity and social grouping. In the article, “Is Popular More Likeable? Choice Status by Intrinsic Appeal in an Experiment Music Market” explains which our judgment can be altered by the status of the performer. The article explains the Matthew Effect which high-status people like celebrities, popular artists and other famous people is can positively change people’s view of the performant because of their high status. The authors used the Gould’s model of the Matthew Effect as an example. The Gould’s model is using transitivity to explore the effect of the power of status on specific members. The article talks about the experiment on the Matthew effect. The main experiment the article discusses is the Musiclab Experiment. Musiclab Experiment is four experiment using songs to understand the social influences. The experiment has over 27,000 participants. The Musiclab experiment using a website with various type of 48 songs. The experiments have participants rating based on a 5-star rating and downloading 48 songs. The website manipulates the users and it creates control groups and social influence experiment groups. In the control group, the users were only giving different

In another article, “Classification as Culture: Types and Trajectories” explain the social influence on people’s music choice. The article is about the genre and its social classification. The authors defined gene as “conceptual tool most often used to classify varieties of cultural products, particularly in the fields of visual art, popular culture, video games, film, literature, and music” (Lena et al 1). They divided music into four genre types—Avant-garde, Scene-based, Industry-based, and Traditionalist. Each genre types represent the origin of the genre. Avant-garde genres is formed based on disliking music’s aspect and they are always discovering new type of music. These genres include punk rock and thrash metal. Scene-based genres are local like a community or neighborhood. These types of genres try to using innovative technology but not expensive. Scence-based genres include indie, and other genres. Industry-based genres are based in popular music. The genres are market driven music so they are not complex. The genres are more simpler so they are able to appeal to a larger audience. The audience’s interest can change over time. These genres include pop, rock, and other genres. Traditionalist genres are keeping the musical heritage and teaching new generation about the performance techniques, history, and rituals of the genres. Traditionalist genres include jazz, folk