“… nothing more clearly affirms one’s ‘class’, nothing more infallibly classifies, than tastes in music.”

Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, 1984

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Recommended book and certainly relevant in the United States in a nuanced way. Have issues coming to terms with the low-bar example in “Whistling Vivaldi” on stereotype threat. How laughable the least common denominator is, so to speak, in both practice and theory.

Would be an interesting analysis at an abstracted level since there have arguably been many social changes even since Bourdieu’s passing in 2002. How this or even the ever encroachment of the spectacle will affect internal structures of habitus remains to be seen.