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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]upper middle class has more education (advanced degrees), more money and more refined tastes. if you meet all 3 criteria you are a good example/safely in that category. many people are borderline. like, a surgeon who makes a lot of money but listens to country music and eats at applebees vs. a low paying adjunct with a harvard phd etc.[/quote]

What is upper middle class music?[/quote]
Plenty of upper middle class people listen to country music. It’s the default music of a large swath of this country. Similarly, hip hop.[/quote]

it is precisely the fact that a lot of Americans listen to country music that makes it not acceptable in the upper classes. so this does not show what you think it shows.

it is true that large numbers of umc people listen to mass music but this is only possible when they have other class markers. You can’t go to community college AND listen to country music AND work as a nurse AND drink soda. it’s like DSM - you need to meet a certain number of criteria to get a diagnosis  but not everyone meets the same ones.[/quote]

This is just bizarre.

Are you aware of the American Routes radio show on NPR? The host is an Ivy League grad. Country music is often featured in the programs.

Lots of highly educated folks, or at least people who crave a wide range of art experience, listen to a huge expanse of music including country. Maybe in part because they have been exposed to so much and find everything of interest. Country music is connected with folk music, to jazz, to blues, and more recently to pop.

Did you not watch Ken Burns's Country Music? The epitome of UMC television programming.[/quote]

you think you are contradicting me but in fact that you are confirming that under highly curated, properly credentialed conditions, xyz (country music in this example) can in fact, counteractively, be understood as a signal of sophistication. i agree with that. i was speaking in broad terms - it would take a lifetime to spell out all the little, constantly changing sings. classical music, for example, while overall in high standing, is full of worn out pieces that are popular among the masses and are in fact negative rather than positive signals. it's complicated, but that's the point, because it keeps UPM exclusive.

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Credentialed performance of country music? Who is licensing these performances?[/quote]

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