Why don't people listen to classical music?

Question

Please, don't respond with the first thing that comes into your mind -- think about it for awhile.
I have done a lot of thinking about this question lately, but I still struggle to come up with a concrete answer. Perhaps someone has one.
In my opinion, there is nothing different between classical music than popular music (or mass music) other than the image that is associated with each "genre." My best answer is that people don't want to be associated with classical music as its image may somehow degrade them in various ways. This also works with different "styles" of music.
Tell me what you think.

Answer 1

I agree with what you said. I think, for some reason, people think it's "not cool" to listen to classical music. kids nowadays seem to be more focused on the new trends and such, so they think that anyone that listens to music composed 200 years ago is a total weirdo. and this even applies to music isn't even technically classical... take concert band music even or marching band music for example. it isn't what's popular and so they refuse to listen to it. I personally find this to be quite sad, as many people that listen to classical music find their foot tapping, and then refuse to admit they really like it. it's sad that they should deprive themselves of such a wonderful form of music. people just worry what other people think about them too much.

I like both types of music, the popular kind and the "classical" kind... and I'm in high school. they are both very good, but I don't think one should be portrayed any worse than the other. they're both music when it comes down to it.

Answer 2

It's difficult for an agent to promote an entire orchestra playing classical music as opposed to promoting an individual or a 3 or 4 piece band.Therefore, I think there might be an exposure problem. I think most of the classical music was written by the classical composers, so new classical pieces are seldom heard and brought to the masses. Anyone that enjoys classical music does so. It just not as popular as contemporary music. It is far more complex and typically the classical music aficionado has some knowledge of the musical instruments involved and can actually identify which instrument or instruments are playing at a particular time. It's easy to identify a drum and a guitar.

Answer 3

thinking i've got on no account been to an area the place you won't be able to discover classical track on the radio, i'm optimistic that's nevertheless favored. additionally, in case you visit a symphony stay overall performance, you will see that maximum seats are nevertheless filled. there became a brilliant station I used to take heed to when I lived in appropriate Mass. It became referred to as a human beings track station (even nevertheless it became extremely each thing). you need to pay attention a Glen Miller chart, 50 Cent, George Jones I, and Stravinsky all in a twenty minute era. It became variety of how my iPod is i think. So definite, i could say that's nevertheless favored. I desire I nevertheless had the source... a pair years in the past I attended a lecture on regardless of if or not classical track is listened to extra or under it became 50 or one hundred years in the past. super (very super) surveys tutor that classical track is listened to via extra human beings now than it became 50 or one hundred years in the past. the adaptation is that there are a number of extra ensembles and the universal appreciation is distinctive. The audiences are often older, and because there are extra stay shows and communities, there are not sufficient aim marketplace participants. think of approximately it: a greater orchestra could have smaller communities that positioned on stay shows a minimum of on a daily basis of the week. Who has the time to circulate to all of those? This impacts concept.

Answer 4

Most young people don't but it depends on which ABC1 category you're talking about, usually the higher classes have always listened to classical music it doesn't mean it's any less popular today it's just there is a new market teenagers who want to listen to new music that can express their feelings in a different way.

Answer 5

Who says they don't? I know a lot of people who do.

But you are probably talking about the mass of people, who prefer popular music. I think popular music, like rock, allows us to cut loose, jump up and down, dance, sing along, fantasize and act crazy. It's a release, and that's fun. Classical music is pleasing to the ear, but does not offer that kind of release.

I think you also have a point about classical music's image. Young people, and some not-so-young people, are very image conscious, wearing the right clothes, hanging with the right people, and listening to the right music -- what everyone else is listening to. Interestingly, in my group in high school (band geek), we listened to jazz and some of the mainstream rock bands. I didn't dare let them know I liked that hard rock/metal "junk."

Answer 6

Well, since most people don't listen to classical music, they tend to see it as odd when they come across someone who does. It is viewed as strange when someone says they like classical. This keeps most young people from getting into it, they develop taste in other kinds of music that are popular among their peers. This is fine with me because classical music bores me into a coma.....

Answer 7

Everytime I hear classical music I yawn.I dont find it invigorating.But if I was stuck to listen to music all day long I could think of 3 different genres offhand that I would find intolerable.No,I think I could handle classical music no problem.I hope it wouldnt make me sleepy.

Answer 8

I do, and have since I was a kid -- my father was into it. Indeed, the majority of my audio collection is classical. But tastes differ. I suspect that most people who don't pay attention to it have simply not been exposed to it. I also suspect that classical is of more interest to high IQ types, although I have no data to support that notion.

Answer 9

Everyone has their own tastes, and most people don't like classical music. Personally i don't mind it when they use classical music and then remix it with a nice beat, but that's pretty much it.

Answer 10

Because they do not want to expand their brains and/or think outside the box. Also, it's not "cool"