List 6: Familiarity with musical genres

List 6: Familiarity with musical genres, 1980s and 2000s.

The ones interviewed in the surveys held in 1985/86, 1987 and 2004 were asked to mention as many musical genres as they could. When no genres could be mentioned anymore, the genres not mentioned were read from a list and the people were asked whether they recognised them as musical genres. The assumption was that the genres not mentioned nor recognised were unknown to the one interviewed. Listed are the percentages of the ones interviewed mentioning or recognising the name of a particular musical genre in the surveys in the 1980s and the survey in 2004. For example, in the 1980s 73% of the people knew or recognised lumba as a musical genre while in the 2000s this was 100%. In the 2000s, either, as is the case here, lumba had become better known or it was recognised by more people as a musical genre.

Under ‘change’ the change in familiarity of the genres is indicated: red for a decrease and green for an increase. In general, well-known genres have become more well-known and less known genres have become even less known but not completely forgotten.