Jan
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Hi, I have an M.A. in English (translation and teaching), I graduated form the oldest (and one of the best) universities in Poland. I'm actually considering strating a PhD in Phonetics next year ( I've found a supervisor but I haven't got the funds yet).
Anyway, my experience is that - at least in Poland - most people who enjoy metal are actually pretty well educated. At my university there were about 40-80 students in each year and there were at least 2-5 people in each year that considered themselves "metalheads" and perhaps another 5 or so who used to consider themselves metal, but then opened up to other genres and lost some of their devotion to metal.
Jazz musicians are usually educated (master's or bachelor's), but they have a degree in music - they're professional musicians. Same for classical musicians. Metal folk often go and get a master's in IT, physics, English, Polish literature, philosophy, etc. Now I'm 31 and I know a lot of people who stil love metal who work as highschool teachers, translators, tutors at university or a college (like me), IT experts. I hate to come across as condescending, but I don't really know any hardcore hip hop fans in such jobs.
Mind you, most of the "old" metalheads I know are not stereotypical drunken death or heavy metal barbarians, these are people who enjoy all kinds of metal as well as not-strictly metal music, sometimes artistic, usually quite independent in their thinking.
Just my two cents. I wonder what it's like in other countries.
Anyway, my experience is that - at least in Poland - most people who enjoy metal are actually pretty well educated. At my university there were about 40-80 students in each year and there were at least 2-5 people in each year that considered themselves "metalheads" and perhaps another 5 or so who used to consider themselves metal, but then opened up to other genres and lost some of their devotion to metal.
Jazz musicians are usually educated (master's or bachelor's), but they have a degree in music - they're professional musicians. Same for classical musicians. Metal folk often go and get a master's in IT, physics, English, Polish literature, philosophy, etc. Now I'm 31 and I know a lot of people who stil love metal who work as highschool teachers, translators, tutors at university or a college (like me), IT experts. I hate to come across as condescending, but I don't really know any hardcore hip hop fans in such jobs.
Mind you, most of the "old" metalheads I know are not stereotypical drunken death or heavy metal barbarians, these are people who enjoy all kinds of metal as well as not-strictly metal music, sometimes artistic, usually quite independent in their thinking.
Just my two cents. I wonder what it's like in other countries.