@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {10880},
      author = {Kim, Khwan and Askin, Noah and Evans, James A.},
      title = {Disrupted routines anticipate musical exploration},
      journal = {PNAS},
      address = {2024-02-01},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Understanding and predicting the emergence and evolution  of cultural tastes manifested in consumption patterns is of  central interest to social scientists, analysts of culture,  and purveyors of content. Prior research suggests that  taste preferences relate to personality traits, values,  shifts in mood, and immigration destination. Understanding  everyday patterns of listening and the function music plays  in life has remained elusive, however, despite speculation  that musical nostalgia may compensate for local disruption.  Using more than one hundred million streams of four million  songs by tens of thousands of international listeners from  a global music service, we show that breaches in personal  routine are systematically associated with personal musical  exploration. As people visited new cities and countries,  their preferences diversified, converging toward their  travel destinations. As people experienced the very  different disruptions associated with COVID-19 lockdowns,  their preferences diversified further. Personal  explorations did not tend to veer toward the global  listening average, but away from it, toward distinctive  regional musical content. Exposure to novel music explored  during periods of routine disruption showed a persistent  influence on listeners’ future consumption patterns. Across  all of these settings, musical preference reflected rather  than compensated for life’s surprises, leaving a lasting  legacy on tastes. We explore the relationship between these  findings and global patterns of behavior and cultural  consumption.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/10880},
}