TY - JOUR
T1 - “Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up for Your Rights!” The Jamaicanization of Youth Across 11 Countries Through Reggae Music?
AU - Ferguson, Gail M.
AU - Boer, Diana
AU - Fischer, Ronald
AU - Hanke, Katja
AU - Ferreira, Maria Cristina
AU - Gouveia, Valdiney V.
AU - Tekman, Hasan Gürkan
AU - Chang, Andrew
AU - Pilati, Ronaldo
AU - Bond, Michael H.
AU - Adams, Byron G.
AU - de Garay Hernández, Jimena
AU - González Atilano, Ma Luisa
AU - Moreno García, Luz Irene
AU - Clobert, Magali
AU - Prade, Claire
AU - Saroglou, Vassilis
AU - Zenger, Markus
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016/5
Y1 - 2016/5
N2 - We investigated whether Reggae preferences are associated with similar values across cultures compared with its culture of origin—Jamaica. Remote acculturation predicts that Reggae listeners across countries will share similar cultural values with Reggae listeners in Jamaica regardless of their cultural or geographical distance from the Caribbean island. We analyzed the correlations between preferences for Reggae music and Schwartz’s 10 value types in university student samples from Jamaica and 11 other societies in Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia (total N = 2,561). In Jamaica, preferences for Reggae music were most strongly correlated with openness to change values and self-enhancement values. Across the other cultures, openness to change was the value dimension most strongly correlated with Reggae preference. Results also indicate some variations in Reggae’s value associations and its similarity to the culture of origin. Reggae’s value associations were more similar to Jamaica’s in samples that are closer culturally in terms of Individualism/Collectivism scores, and closer geographically in terms of kilometers. In sum, results provide some support for remote value acculturation via Reggae listening across countries (i.e., “Jamaicanization”) moderated by cultural and geographical proximity.
AB - We investigated whether Reggae preferences are associated with similar values across cultures compared with its culture of origin—Jamaica. Remote acculturation predicts that Reggae listeners across countries will share similar cultural values with Reggae listeners in Jamaica regardless of their cultural or geographical distance from the Caribbean island. We analyzed the correlations between preferences for Reggae music and Schwartz’s 10 value types in university student samples from Jamaica and 11 other societies in Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia (total N = 2,561). In Jamaica, preferences for Reggae music were most strongly correlated with openness to change values and self-enhancement values. Across the other cultures, openness to change was the value dimension most strongly correlated with Reggae preference. Results also indicate some variations in Reggae’s value associations and its similarity to the culture of origin. Reggae’s value associations were more similar to Jamaica’s in samples that are closer culturally in terms of Individualism/Collectivism scores, and closer geographically in terms of kilometers. In sum, results provide some support for remote value acculturation via Reggae listening across countries (i.e., “Jamaicanization”) moderated by cultural and geographical proximity.
KW - Jamaica
KW - Reggae
KW - emerging adults
KW - individualism
KW - media
KW - music preferences
KW - remote acculturation
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U2 - 10.1177/0022022116632910
DO - 10.1177/0022022116632910
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84963556436
SN - 0022-0221
VL - 47
SP - 581
EP - 604
JO - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
JF - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
IS - 4
ER -