Do Music Tastes Change With The State of the World? [Oh Academia]

In The Guardian, lovable imp Alex Petrirdis makes a facetious connection between AC/DC and the economy, showing that the band's most successful points (such as right now) correspond with negative economic indicators, and their biggest flops come during boom times. He's kidding, but some people do take this idea seriously. Following the famous idea that hemlines raise during good times and fall during bad, a professor named Terry F. Pettijohn II has argued that people prefer more "meaningful" son...

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