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5. Discuss the following question with your partner.

Do you think one’s age has an influence on the type of music s/he listens to? Why/Why not?

6. Skim the text and circle the correct statement that best expresses its main idea.

1 The perception that people have of us has a strong association with our musical preferences.
2 Our musical taste keeps changing in accord with some key life challenges as we age.
3 All musical ages are about one’s gaining acceptance from others and being independent.

We define ourselves with music and use it to express our intellect or emotions. However, do we always
listen to a specific kind of music throughout our lives? To answer this question, researchers have done
a study which shows that the music we have a liking for adapts itself to new phases in our lives.
According to the study, such intense forms of music as metal are favored in adolescence. In
mid-twenties and thirties, however, people prefer contemporary music such as pop, and more
sophisticated ones like jazz in middle age. The theory is that adolescents desire autonomy and
associate loud, distorted sounds in metal music with a call for independence, which is one of the key
“life challenges” of this period. Having become autonomous, people grow concerned about being
loved, and they begin preferring romantic, emotionally positive, and danceable songs of pop and
R&B. After that stage of life, people start getting on in years and settle down. Then, the last musical
age where elegant, relaxing, and emotional musical genres like classical, folk, and jazz are preferred
by the middle-aged emerges. One key life challenge to
be achieved at this stage is social standing. Trying to
promote our social status, we tend to listen to songs
reflecting the esthetic of high culture and intellect.
While work exhaustion and hardships of nurturing
a family require relaxing music, having to cope
with the loss of loved ones gets us to listen to
emotive music that speaks to the experiences of
this life stage.

To sum up, our musical preferences go through
great changes while we get older, and there are
some certain age trends in musical taste. Do you
wonder how your musical preferences will evolve
in the future? Well, you will live; you will see.

7. Read and choose the best answer according to the text.

1 Which of the following could be the best title for the text?
a A Variety of Musical Genres in Order of Preference
b How Our Taste in Music Changes over a Lifetime
c The Reason Why Some Have Poor Musical Taste
2 Which of the following can be inferred from the text?
a The middle-aged people prefer listening to folk music rather than jazz.
b The musical genre we love is a clear sign of our intellectual superiority.
c Music is a powerful tool with which we are able to identify ourselves.
3 With which of the following would the author most likely disagree?
a The things we go through at different life stages have little impact on our musical taste.
b To meet social and psychological needs, our taste in music will presumably change.
c We would rather listen to sophisticated musical genres to express our intellect.
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