Taste. What’s good? What’s bad? People often come guns blazing with their opinions on things – whether it be music, movies, art, food, or drink. But where do these ideas come from and why are they so deeply ingrained?
This week on Where There’s Smoke we talk taste. Producer Nick Jaworski joins Brett as co-host this week and shares a story involving Canada’s top selling recording artist, the United States Air Force… and soap.
And after exploring many influences and interactions of taste, we talk to Dr. Robert Woody from the University of Nebraska. He expands on taste as it relates to fandom, and teaches us about “burging” and “corfing”.
Robert Woody is Steinhart Foundation Distinguished Professor of Music Education on the faculty of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, where he teaches courses in music education and music psychology. He is an author of the book Psychology for Musicians: Understanding and Acquiring the Skills, and contributed a chapter on “Emotion and Motivation in the Lives of Performers” to the Handbook of Music and Emotion, published by Oxford University Press. His research has focused on the cognitive mechanisms of expressive performance and ear-based music learning. His writings have included multiple research reports in the Journal of Research in Music Education and teaching practitioner articles in the Music Educators Journal. He is also a regular blogger on the Psychology Today website.
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