{"id":10996,"date":"2014-05-27T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10996"},"modified":"2014-05-29T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:02:09","slug":"heavy-metal-and-affluence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/heavy-metal-and-affluence\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Metal And Affluence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/052714_0623_HeavyMetalA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Florida looked at the development of heavy metal music:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heavy metal originates in economically ravaged working class areas where discontent was rife.<\/li>\n<li>These days however it is most popular in Scandinavia \u2013 which is odd because\u00a0Scandinavian countries\u00a0have a really high quality of life.<\/li>\n<li>Some suggest that the emotional darkness of the music resonates well with those who have to deal with long, dark winters.<\/li>\n<li>Others suggest that it appeals to those with Viking blood.<\/li>\n<li>Yet others suggest its popular <em>because <\/em>the societies are so affluent and this leads to boredom and backlash against the privileged.<\/li>\n<li>Its popularity may be helped by the fact that Scandinavian countries have the wealth to experiment with new sounds, and wealthy youth with the leisure time to listen to it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See a map showing where heavy metal is most popular and read more about the odd trend over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/how-heavy-metal-tracks-the-wealth-of-nations\/371473\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/how-heavy-metal-tracks-the-wealth-of-nations\/371473\/\">Citylab<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Florida looked at the development of heavy metal music: Heavy metal originates in economically ravaged working class areas where discontent was rife. These days however it is most popular in Scandinavia \u2013 which is odd because\u00a0Scandinavian countries\u00a0have a really high quality of life. Some suggest that the emotional darkness of the music resonates well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/052714_0623_HeavyMetalA1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10999,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions\/10999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}